Adjective: ameliorative
Comparison Forms
Synthetic
Perifrastic
| Comparative | more ameliorative |
| Superlative | most ameliorative |
Sample Sentences
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One night while he was moaning on about his sorry existence I said: Do you really want to change it?
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Of course I do, he said, but nothing I’ve tried has been ameliorative. [2007, Junot Díaz, The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao, Faber and Faber (2009), page 175:]
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[…]personal nicknames can generally be divided into positively marked (ameliorative) ones, usually given by family members and friends as a sign of affection and acceptance, and those negatively marked (pejorative or derogatory), whose aim is to mock or ridicule a person[…] [2016, Olga Panić Kavgić, “Linguistic Creativity at Work: Nicknames of Women Tennis Players”, in English Studies Today, archived from the original on 20 Aug 2018:]
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ameliorative inquiry
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ameliorative analysis
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ameliorative project
Adjectives inflected like ameliorative
priest-ridden,
unreposed,
evadible,
dissentious,
dissentient,
unforesighted,
egocentrical,
unephemeral,
unennobling,
mensuralist,
flocculent,
unseductive,
whoopsy,
whooshy,
surrogate,
Nicodian,
unrepaired,
prismatoidal,
renorenal,
unseducible, etc. (List truncated at 20 adjectives)
Etymology
1. Etymology tree
2. English ameliorate
3. Latin -īvus
4. Old French -ifbor.
5. Middle English -yf
6. English -ive
7. English ameliorative
8. From ameliorate + -ive.