Usually means: Improving or making something better.
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We found 15 dictionaries that define the word ameliorative:

General (14 matching dictionaries)
  1. ameliorative: Merriam-Webster
  2. ameliorative: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. ameliorative: Collins English Dictionary
  4. ameliorative: Vocabulary.com
  5. ameliorative: Wordnik
  6. ameliorative: Wiktionary
  7. Ameliorative, ameliorative: Dictionary.com
  8. Ameliorative: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  9. ameliorative: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  10. ameliorative: Rhymezone
  11. Ameliorative: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  12. ameliorative: FreeDictionary.org
  13. ameliorative: Mnemonic Dictionary
  14. Ameliorative: TheFreeDictionary.com

Business (1 matching dictionary)
  1. ameliorative: Legal dictionary

(Note: See ameliorate as well.)

Definitions from Wiktionary (ameliorative)

adjective:  Able to repair or ameliorate.
adjective:  (linguistics) Suggesting or relating to a positive or approving evaluation.
adjective:  (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.
noun:  That which betters or improves.
noun:  (linguistics, rare) A linguistic unit (such as a word, morpheme) that implies a positive or approving evaluation.

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