Word Pronunciation & Dictionary

meliorative

/ˈmiːlɪɒɹətɪv/

Word Rarity Very rare

Frequency: Zipf frequency 0.00 in modern English

Syllables: me-lio-ra-tive
IPA: /ˈmiːlɪɒɹətɪv/

16

Scrabble Score

11

Letters

4

Syllables

9

Unique Chars

Meaning

adj

That meliorates; curative, improving, salutary.

Example Sentences

"We…become savage in our hatred to the various meliorative processes."
"Peel has no meliorative and restorative principle to propose."

Etymology

From Late Latin meliōrō (“make better, improve”) + English -ative (“tending to”, suffix forming adjectives).

Word Breakdown

Prefix: -ative
Root: meliōrō

Synonyms

ameliorating ameliorative amelioratory

Questions

How do you pronounce meliorative?: The recorded pronunciation is /ˈmiːlɪɒɹətɪv/.
What does meliorative mean?: That meliorates; curative, improving, salutary.
Where does meliorative come from?: From Late Latin meliōrō (“make better, improve”) + English -ative (“tending to”, suffix forming adjectives).

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