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- Dictionaryamelioration/əˌmiːlɪəˈreɪʃn/
noun
- 1. the act of making something better; improvement: formal "progress brings with it the amelioration of the human condition"
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The meaning of AMELIORATE is to make better or more tolerable. How to use ameliorate in a sentence. Did you know? Synonym Discussion of Ameliorate.
AMELIORATION definition: 1. the process of making a bad or unpleasant situation better: 2. the process of making a bad or…. Learn more.
Ameliorate is a formal verb that means to make a bad or unpleasant situation better. Learn how to use it in sentences with different contexts and synonyms.
Amelioration is a process that makes something better. A philanthropist might devote her life to the amelioration of poverty and hunger.
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To ameliorate is to step in and make a bad situation better. You could try introducing a second lollipop to ameliorate a battle between two toddlers over a single lollipop.
Amelioration is the act or an instance of improving or making something better. It can also refer to a change in the meaning of a word from negative to positive. See synonyms, antonyms, pronunciation, and usage examples of amelioration.
The earliest known use of the noun amelioration is in the Middle English period (1150—1500). OED's earliest evidence for amelioration is from before 1450, in Lanfranc's Science of Cirurgie. amelioration is of multiple origins. Partly a borrowing from French. Probably partly formed within English, by derivation.
