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meliorative

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It's for the simple web (simple being a meliorative here, in the spirit of the Gemini project that this TUI browser supports).

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Quick take

(rare) That meliorates; curative, improving, salutary.

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adjective

(rare) That meliorates; curative, improving, salutary.

Definitions

Core meanings and parts of speech for meliorative.

Example sentences

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It's for the simple web (simple being a meliorative here, in the spirit of the Gemini project that this TUI browser supports).

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So I think what you're saying is that a collective appreciation for precision improves as society evolves in the same way that the word “sophisticated” has mostly become meliorative.

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Less Wrong is a tentacular, all-encompassing organism that uses the word "rationalism" and "bayes theorem" in subtly overloaded senses as aesthetic ideals, life goals and in general as meliorative qualificatives.

Quote examples

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So I think what you're saying is that a collective appreciation for precision improves as society evolves in the same way that the word “sophisticated” has mostly become meliorative.

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Less Wrong is a tentacular, all-encompassing organism that uses the word "rationalism" and "bayes theorem" in subtly overloaded senses as aesthetic ideals, life goals and in general as meliorative qualificatives.

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How do you use meliorative in a sentence?

It's for the simple web (simple being a meliorative here, in the spirit of the Gemini project that this TUI browser supports).

What does meliorative mean?

(rare) That meliorates; curative, improving, salutary.

What part of speech is meliorative?

meliorative is commonly used as adjective.