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meliorative

/ˈmiːlɪɒɹətɪv/

meliorative adjective: that meliorates; curative, improving, salutary.

Adjective

meliorative (not comparable)

  1. (rare) That meliorates; curative, improving, salutary.
    • We…become savage in our hatred to the various meliorative processes.1808, G. Edwards, Pract. Plan, chapter iii, page 30
    • Peel has no meliorative and restorative principle to propose.1841, R. Oastler, Fleet Papers, volume I, chapter xl, page 314

meliorative meaning in Urdu

meliorative in Urdu

meliorative, reform
اصلاحی islāhī

Origin of meliorative

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

Questions about meliorative

What does meliorative mean?
Meliorative means that meliorates; curative, improving, salutary.
What is meliorative in Urdu?
Meliorative in Urdu is اصلاحی (islāhī). See Meliorative meaning in Urdu.
What part of speech is meliorative?
Meliorative is an adjective.
How do you pronounce meliorative?
Meliorative is pronounced /ˈmiːlɪɒɹətɪv/.

Words near meliorative in the dictionary

  1. melioraters
  2. meliorates
  3. meliorating
  4. melioration
  5. meliorations
  6. meliorative
  7. meliorator
  8. meliorators
  9. meliorbiosis
  10. meliorbiotic
  11. meliorism

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Adapted from Wiktionary: meliorative (page history and authors); اصلاحی (Urdu) (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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