English Dictionary

ameliorative

adj

Able to repair or ameliorate. / (linguistics) Suggesting or relating to a positive or approving evaluation.

The ameliorative measures taken by the government helped improve the living conditions of the people.

意味（1）

Able to repair or ameliorate.

意味（2）

(linguistics) Suggesting or relating to a positive or approving evaluation.

[…]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[…]

意味（3）

(philosophy) Of or relating to conceptual engineering, the normative study of which conceptual demarcation is most conducive to solve the problems the concept is a priori taken to solve.

ameliorative inquiry