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Adjective: meliorative  'meel-yu,rey-tiv [N. Amer], mee-lee-u-ru-tiv [Brit]
  1. Tending to ameliorate
    "Federal assistance has a meliorative effect on the difference in school budgets between wealthy and poor districts";
    - ameliorating, ameliorative, amelioratory

See also: bettering

Nearest

Melicoccus
Melicytus
melilot
melilotus
Melilotus alba
Melilotus officinalis
Melina Mercouri
Melinae
meliorate
melioration
meliorative
meliorism
meliorist
Meliphagidae
melisma
Melissa
Melissa officinalis
Melkite
Mellaril
melliferous
mellifluent