melioration

1. 1.

   the act of relieving ills and changing for the better

   Synonymsameliorationbetterment

   Broaderimprovement
2. 2.

   a condition superior to an earlier condition

   “the new school represents a great improvement”

   Synonymsimprovement

   Broadercondition

   Narrowerbettermentdevelopmentreformationrenovation
3. 3.

   the linguistic process in which over a period of time a word grows more positive in connotation or more elevated in meaning

   Broaderdrift

Other forms of melioration

plural

meliorations·

Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.

Questions about melioration

What does melioration mean?

melioration means "the act of relieving ills and changing for the better". That is the primary sense; the word has 3 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in melioration?

melioration has 6 syllables: me-li-o-ra-ti-on. The stress falls on "ti".

What is another word for melioration?

Close synonyms include amelioration, betterment, improvement. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is melioration a common word?

melioration is banded "Familiar" — widely understood, used when the subject calls for it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.