meliorative

Late Latin meliōrō (“make better, improve”) + English -ative (“tending to”, suffix forming adjectives)

• IPA^(key): /ˈmiːlɪɒɹətɪv/, /ˈmiːlɪəɹətɪv/, /ˈmiːljəɹətɪv/

meliorative (not comparable)

1. (rare) That meliorates; curative, improving, salutary.
   • 1808, G. Edwards, Pract. Plan, chapter iii, page 30:

     We…become savage in our hatred to the various meliorative processes.

   • 1841, R. Oastler, Fleet Papers, volume I, chapter xl, page 314:

     Peel has no meliorative and restorative principle to propose.

• James A. H. Murray [et al.], editors (1884–1928), “† Me·liorative, a.”, in A New English Dictionary on Historical Principles (Oxford English Dictionary), volumes VI, Part 2 (M–N), London: Clarendon Press, →OCLC, page 317, column 2.

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meliorative

1. inflection of meliorativ:
   1. strong/mixed nominative/accusative feminine singular
   2. strong nominative/accusative plural
   3. weak nominative all-gender singular
   4. weak accusative feminine/neuter singular