ameliorative

IPA: ʌmˈiɫjɝeɪtɪv

That which betters or improves.
(linguistics, rare) A linguistic unit (such as a word, morpheme) that implies a positive or approving evaluation.

Able to repair or ameliorate.
(linguistics) Suggesting or relating to a positive or approving evaluation.
(philosophy) Of or relating to conceptual engineering, the normative study of which conceptual demarcation is most conducive to solve the problems the concept is a priori taken to solve.

Examples of "ameliorative" in Sentences

When they asked for some kind of ameliorative measures, we gave them none.
I did suffer from brain-fag on occasion, but alcohol never suggested itself as an ameliorative.
Hopefully Mary Kate Hurley's paper on time in the Old English Orosius will have an ameliorative effect.
But does it have to be so much so, or can some (different) public policy choices have an ameliorative effect?
In Time rails against life's limits and proposes that they can be overcome by ameliorative acts like robbing banks.
Hmm, not sure I want to live in a country where someone can undergo torture and then without receiving any kind of ameliorative mental treatment be considered competent to stand trial.
Given the disproportionate casualty rate among males compared to females in the military and the current “gender apartheid” in the Armed Forces, surely an ameliorative affirmative action draft is in order?