Meliorate

[mi:ljәreit]

Definition

(v. t.) To make better; to improve; to ameliorate; to soften; to make more tolerable.

(v. i.) To grow better.

Checker: Victoria

Synonyms and Synonymous

v. a. Improve, better, mend, amend, emend, ameliorate, make better.

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Synonyms and Antonyms

[See AMELIORATE]

Edited by Lester

Definition

v.t. to make better.—v.i. to grow better.—ns. Meliorā′tion the act of making or becoming better; Meliorā′tor an improver; Mē′liorism the doctrine that the world is capable of improvement as opposed to Optimism and Pessimism; Mē′liorist one who holds this doctrine; Melior′ity the state of being better: betterness.

Edited by Gail