ameliorative

名词 n. 形容词 adj.
中文释义
英 /əˈmiːliəɹətɪv/    美 /əˈmiːliəɹətɪv/

英文释义

名词 n.
  1. That which betters or improves.
    — With such conventional Keynesian amelioratives, the economy normally recovers with output and employment on the rise, and, unfortunately, with inflation picking up too.
  2. A linguistic unit (such as a word, morpheme) that implies a positive or approving evaluation. rare
    — Moreover, diminutives, augmentatives, pejoratives and amelioratives have always been analysed as independent categories, neglecting the possible interrelations among them.
形容词 adj.
  1. Able to repair or ameliorate.
    — One night while he was moaning on about his sorry existence I said: Do you really want to change it? Of course I do, he said, but nothing I’ve tried has been ameliorative.
  2. 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[…]
  3. 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

词形变化

more ameliorative comparative most ameliorative superlative amelioratives plural

词汇关系

反义词
antonym(s) of
衍生词
ameliorative waste
相关词
amelioration

词源

词源 1
Etymology tree
English ameliorate
Latin -īvus
Old French -ifbor.
Middle English -yf
English -ive
English ameliorative
From ameliorate + -ive.
词源 2
Etymology tree
English ameliorate
Latin -īvus
Old French -ifbor.
Middle English -yf
English -ive
English ameliorative
From ameliorate + -ive.
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