meliorist

Other forms of meliorist

plural

meliorists·

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 meliorist

What does meliorist mean?

meliorist means "a disputant who advocates reform".

How many syllables are in meliorist?

meliorist has 4 syllables: me-li-o-rist. The stress falls on "li".

What is another word for meliorist?

Close synonyms include reformer, reformist, crusader, social reformer. 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 meliorist a common word?

meliorist 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.