amelioratives

Noun

ameliorative (plural amelioratives)

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.1973, Alan Gartner, Public service employment, page 106
2. (rare) A linguistic unit (such as a word, morpheme) that implies a positive or approving evaluation.
   • Moreover, diminutives, augmentatives, pejoratives and amelioratives have always been analysed as independent categories, neglecting the possible interrelations among them.2015, Nicola Grandi, Edinburgh Handbook of Evaluative Morphology, page 4

   Antonyms:

   pejorative

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