What does meliorative mean?

meliorative means "tending to ameliorate".

How many syllables are in meliorative?

meliorative has 5 syllables: me-li-o-ra-tive. The stress falls on "o".

What is another word for meliorative?

Close synonyms include ameliorating, ameliorative, amelioratory. 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 meliorative a common word?

meliorative is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.

meliorative — meaning, pronunciation and definition

adjective

1 senseA word that describes or qualifies a noun.

1.
tending to ameliorate
Synonymsameliorating ameliorative amelioratory
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Questions about meliorative

What does meliorative mean?: meliorative means "tending to ameliorate".
How many syllables are in meliorative?: meliorative has 5 syllables: me-li-o-ra-tive. The stress falls on "o".
What is another word for meliorative?

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