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amelioratory

amelioratory adjective: serving to ameliorate or improve.

Adjective

amelioratory (comparative more amelioratory, superlative most amelioratory)

  1. Serving to ameliorate or improve.

Forms of amelioratory

comparativemore amelioratory
superlativemost amelioratory

Origin of amelioratory

From ameliorate + -ory.

Questions about amelioratory

What does amelioratory mean?
Amelioratory means serving to ameliorate or improve.
What part of speech is amelioratory?
Amelioratory is an adjective.

Words near amelioratory in the dictionary

  1. ameliorative
  2. ameliorative waste
  3. amelioratives
  4. ameliorator
  5. ameliorators
  6. amelioratory
  7. ameliorism
  8. ameliorist
  9. amelioristic
  10. ameliorists
  11. ameliorize

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