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View synonyms for ameliorative

ameliorative

Rarely a·mel·io·ra·to·ry

[uh-meel-yuh-rey-tiv, -mee-lee-uh-]

adjective

  1. making or intended to make something better, more bearable, or more satisfactory.

    Our objective is to make ameliorative changes that protect children more effectively and build a safer future for families.



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  • unameliorative adjective
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And she said, “this one is better. It has these ameliorative features that the prior law didn’t have.”

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Where the coronavirus and Black Lives Matter highlight the “I can’t breathe” of patients and Black victims of police brutality, Ms. McArthur shifts it to a personal register that feels both ameliorative and activist.

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Some climate activists argue that if we publicly admit that the problem can’t be solved, it will discourage people from taking any ameliorative action at all.

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After more than half a century of attempts at ameliorative social policies, it is undeniable that there exists an underclass trapped by the intergenerational transmission of poverty.

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He goes on to extol the ameliorative efforts of companies like Facebook, which use artificial intelligence to detect posts that mention suicide and other idioms of self-harm.

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