Definitions
American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition
- v. To make better; improve.
- v. To grow better.
Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
- To make better; improve; ameliorate.
- To grow better; be improved.
Wiktionary
GNU Webster's 1913
- v. To make better; to improve; to ameliorate; to soften; to make more tolerable.
- v. To grow better.
WordNet 3.0
- v. to make better
- v. get better
Etymologies
- From Latin melior "better" (Wiktionary)
- Latin meliōrāre, meliōrāt-, from melior, better; see mel-2 in Indo-European roots. (American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition)
Examples
“Curiously, with options meliorate duty ornamental alikeness serenity and calm.”
“So there are some meliorate locate a fleur de lys?”
“But surely no one expects readers to be converted to Nazism or sadomasochism through Aue's account of himself, either, so one must conclude that Franklin's and Bukiet's dislike of an "unremitting immersion in Aue's worldview" has been converted into a general critical requirement that bad people as depicted in fiction must be "counteracted" by a "philosophical or artistic" effort to meliorate their evil.”
“Psychological trauma and other serious mental health issues clearly go beyond their abilities and training to treat and meliorate.”
“Washington's foreign policy of late has sought, with the clear exceptions of Iraq and Afghanistan, to avoid confrontation and to attempt to meliorate global challenges.”
“While gender inequality is a very hard thing to change, the following projects could be done to help meliorate this gender imbalance:”
“White America has since succumbed to tax phobia, "compassion fatigue" and fashionable pessimism about government's ability to meliorate social conditions.”
“But he believes that his consort crapper do meliorate than the competition.”
“While burner might try to meliorate her liberal constituents, Reichert has proven that, while he's never going to please everyone, he at least tries to support all of his constituents.”
“The prime minister having said something needs to be done to meliorate the situation.”
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These user-created lists contain the word ‘meliorate’.
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allover
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big book gre
abase, abbess, abbey, abbot, abdicate, abdomen, abdominal, abduction, abed, aberration, abet, abeyance and 6691 more...
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azd's Words
adamantine, abatial, ablate, ablative, abrogate, accretive, acromegaly, acrostic, actinism, actinic, acuity, adduce and 968 more...
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GRE
acrimony, verisimilitude, tenebrious, tenebrous, dishabille, unfettered, deplorable, woebegone, credulity, naïveté, mitigate, meliorate and 475 more...
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Spelling Bee list 2011
Abalone, ablution, absolution, aboriginally, abstemious, academician, acclamation, accommodation, acculturation, acetic, acetone, acme and 590 more...
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TheLastGoodNameLeft
The Last Good Words Left
ephemera, gammon, errata, ellipses, octopi, heteronormative, polyp, intersectionality, theses, california, halfback, fullback and 555 more...
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bjvanuden's Words
penumbra, haphazard, harangue, perforate, meliorate, myrrh, splay, sprite, enervate, melifluous, halcyon, perihelion
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Words
Words to revisit
meliorate, ameliorate, ubiquitous, homologate, urbane, parergon, enmity, prevarication, karoshi, detritus, capitulate, luftmensch and 56 more...
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Balsamic's Words
vignette, itinerant, maladies, hagiographic, dour, ethereal, credence, solemnity, provenance, vestigial, dissonance, melancholia and 221 more...
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Gloriaha's Words
immute, wholly, inure, penchant, halcyon, fusty, smidgeon, ostension, array, amalgam, meliorate, bungle and 64 more...
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melcarroll's list
Magpies
mellifluous, obtuse, ephemeral, translucent, anchorite, limerence, ephemeroptera, eclectic, saturniid, luminescent, incandescent, irridescent and 39 more...
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muliebrity, mulierose, marquetry, melioration, mendacious, metaphrase, mirabilia, mirabiliary, modish, monition, morigerate, mentation and 28 more...
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Evan Brown’s List of Useful Words
egregious, inflammatory, solidarity, onomatopoeia, paragon, assuage, pretentious, kerfuffle, proletariat, causative, adjudicate, proclivity and 22 more...
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