Amelioration

Word AMELIORATION
Character 12
Hyphenation a mel io ra tion
Pronunciations N/A

Definitions and meanings of "Amelioration"

What do we mean by amelioration?

The act or an instance of ameliorating. noun

The state of being ameliorated; improvement. noun

The act of ameliorating, or the state of being ameliorated; a making or becoming better; improvement; melioration. noun

A thing wherein improvement is realized; an improvement. noun

The act of ameliorating, or the state of being ameliorated; making or becoming better; improvement; melioration. noun

The act of making better. noun

An improvement noun

The act of relieving ills and changing for the better noun

The act of making better.

An improvement.

The process by which a term gains a more positive connotation over time.

Contrary to misconceptions, ameliorate and alleviate do have differences. While ameliorate means to actually improve a situation, alleviate means to relieve the stress of the situation, make it more tolerable. Urban Dictionary

Synonym for alleviate, which asshat frat business and political science majors use to make themselves sound smarter. Urban Dictionary

Make (something bad or unsatisfactory) better Urban Dictionary

To improve your lazy ass! GET UP! Urban Dictionary

Another word for "ejactulation" Urban Dictionary

To improve or make something better. Urban Dictionary

When you want to say the word "improve" but you spent at least two years of your early twenties/ late teens watching an irish laddie who once sexually assaulted someone talk about innane left wing politics for 9 hours a day and it had a measurable impact on your psyche. Urban Dictionary

When you want to say the word "improve" but you spent at least two years of your early twenties/ late teens watching an irish laddie who once sexually assaulted someone talk about innane left wing politics for 9 hours a day and it had a measurable impact on your psyche. Urban Dictionary

Synonyms and Antonyms for Amelioration

  • Antonyms for amelioration
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The word "amelioration" in example sentences

The converse process, amelioration, is evident in the slang uses of wicked, deadly, and sick. ❋ Unknown (2009)

The Palestinians have shown nothing over the years if not a great willingness to reject short-term amelioration of living conditions on behalf of larger political principles. ❋ Unknown (2007)

Policy decisions should be based on semi-empirical 10-20 year maximum likelihood projections of current trends, with the idea of amelioration of possible negative climate effects, and, honestly, exploitation of any anticipated positive consequences. ❋ Unknown (2006)

As for the general interest in social amelioration, that is the worst sign of all. ❋ Samuel McChord Crothers (N/A)

The images of dead babies, looking like baby dolls rather than fragmented remains which appeared yesterday, have been cited by Ms. Philips herself as a kind of amelioration of the situation. ❋ Unknown (2009)

Here are all these northern liberals from Wisconsin, Ohio, Arthur Morgan and [David] Lilienthal and these people are real liberal folks, but the policies at TVA really did not contribute much at all to any kind of amelioration of racial problems — in hiring let alone the people who were displaced by dams, jobs within TVA. ❋ Unknown (1991)

There has been produced an abundant literature in which traditional Christian ethics take ample account of modern social investigations and the theories thus formulated have created a movement for social amelioration which is playing a notable part in the present-day history of Europe. ❋ 1840-1916 (1913)

But luckily I was in the 'Fifth Reader' then, and had happened to have 'amelioration' in my spelling-lesson only a few days before; so I spoke up and said, 'Oh, yes, Dr. Longman, he is a great deal better, and he is really hungry to-day.' ❋ Laura Elizabeth Howe Richards (1896)

The key word for Jefferson was "amelioration," and it included several stages of national and moral development. ❋ Joaqu?n Mart?nez (2010)

The postmodern comedy in the work of Pynchon or Barth or Barthelme doesn't seek to "correct" behaviors and institutions that threaten individual autonomy or impede social progress; it portrays such threats and obstructions as inherent to human life and thus unfortunately not much subject to amelioration. ❋ Unknown (2010)

But Bakhtin makes a distinction between carnivalesque comedy and satire -- the latter takes nothing seriously except its own, its author's, authority, which is invoked to ridicule that which requires amelioration. ❋ Unknown (2010)

example: To ameliorate the [bitter] soup, one might add other ingredients, improving [the soup] itself. To [alleviate] the bitter soup, one might distract the self while eating it, talking to friends, holding the nose, eating other foods, making it easier to consume. None of this lessens how bitter the soup actually is. It just alleviates the discomfort of consuming it. ❋ Ralph777 (2013)

I think the World Bank needs to focus on a [paradigm shift] to ameliorate the effects of [poverty] in [sub-Saharan Africa] ❋ Derrp (2007)

Nate, you butt-fucking cocksucker, [your disgusting] [visage] and puss-like personality is a dreadful combination that no man could [ameliorate]. ❋ ParanigerianBeemer (2012)

Damn, this [person's] art [skillz] is so good I need to [ameliorate] over his ass. ❋ JSP (2003)

After i exacerbated i ameliorated [everywhere]. ❋ Josh Swag (2013)

"To *[ameliorate]*" means to make something a little more like *[Emilia Clarke]* from Game of Thrones--that is, to make it just a lit'l' mo' [bettah]. ❋ TexasBEAST (2019)

[Forsooth]! I require thou to expenditiously [ameliorate] the materialist basis theory behind watching this fat man play [bloodborne]. Is giving him $5/month really going to beset the bourgoise capitalist class with tiredness? ❋ Hirhitkvtf (2022)

[Forsooth]! I require thou to expenditiously [ameliorate] the materialist basis theory behind watching this fat man play [bloodborne]. Is giving him $5/month really going to beset the bourgoise capitalist class with tiredness? ❋ Hirhitkvtf (2022)

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