Adjacent Words

Ameliorate definitions

	Tweet

Webster's 1828 Dictionary

AME'LIORATE, v.t. [L. melior, better.]
To make better; to improve; to meliorate.
AME'LIORATE, v.il To grow better; to meliorate.

WordNet (r) 3.0 (2005)

v
1: to make better; "The editor improved the manuscript with his changes" [syn: better, improve, amend, ameliorate, meliorate] [ant: aggravate, exacerbate, exasperate, worsen]
2: get better; "The weather improved toward evening" [syn: better, improve, ameliorate, meliorate] [ant: decline, worsen]

Merriam Webster's

verb (-rated; -rating) Etymology: alteration of meliorate Date: 1767 transitive verb to make better or more tolerable intransitive verb to grow better Synonyms: see improve • amelioration noun • ameliorative adjective • ameliorator noun • amelioratory adjective

Oxford Reference Dictionary

v.tr. & intr. formal make or become better; improve. Derivatives: amelioration n. ameliorative adj. ameliorator n. Etymology: alt. of MELIORATE after F améliorer

Webster's 1913 Dictionary

Ameliorate A*mel"io*rate, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Ameliorated; p. pr. & vb. n. Ameliorating.] [L. ad + meliorare to make better: cf. F. am['e]liorer. See Meliorate.] To make better; to improve; to meliorate. In every human being there is a wish to ameliorate his own condition. --Macaulay.

Webster's 1913 Dictionary

Ameliorate A*mel"io*rate, v. i. To grow better; to meliorate; as, wine ameliorates by age.

Collin's Cobuild Dictionary

(ameliorates, ameliorating, ameliorated) If someone or something ameliorates a situation, they make it better or easier in some way. (FORMAL) = alleviate ? exacerbate VERB

Soule's Dictionary of English Synonyms

v. a. Improve, amend, mend, better, meliorate, elevate, raise, promote, make better.

Moby Thesaurus

accommodate, acculturate, adapt, adjust, advance, alleviate, alter, amend, be changed, be converted into, be renewed, better, boost, bottom out, break, break up, bring forward, change, checker, chop, chop and change, civilize, come about, come along, come around, come on, come round, convalesce, convert, deform, degenerate, denature, deteriorate, develop, deviate, diverge, diversify, edify, educate, elevate, emend, enhance, enlighten, enrich, fatten, favor, fit, flop, forward, foster, gain, gain ground, get ahead, get along, go ahead, go forward, go straight, graduate, grow better, haul around, help, improve, improve upon, jibe, lard, lift, lighten, look up, make an improvement, make headway, make progress, make strides, meliorate, mend, mitigate, modify, modulate, mutate, nurture, overthrow, perk up, pick up, progress, promote, qualify, raise, re-create, realign, rebuild, reconstruct, recuperate, redesign, refine upon, refit, reform, relieve, remake, renew, reshape, restructure, revamp, revive, ring the changes, shape up, shift, shift the scene, show improvement, shuffle the cards, skyrocket, socialize, straighten out, subvert, swerve, tack, take a turn, take off, transfigure, transform, turn, turn aside, turn into, turn the corner, turn the scale, turn the tables, turn the tide, turn upside down, undergo a change, upgrade, uplift, vary, veer, warp, work a change, worsen