amelioration

See also: amélioration

English

Etymology

From French amélioration

Pronunciation

• Rhymes: -eɪʃən

Noun

amelioration (countable and uncountable, plural ameliorations)

1. The act of making better.
2. An improvement.
3. (linguistics) The process by which a term gains a more positive connotation over time.

Synonyms

• revamp

Antonyms

• deterioration
• nerf (game slang)
• pejoration (linguistics)

Translations

act of making better

• Bulgarian: подобряване (bg) (podobrjavane)
• Catalan: millora (ca) f
• Danish: forbedre (da)
• Galician: mellora f, melloría f, melloramento (gl) m
• German: Verbesserung (de) f, Besserung (de) f
• Interlingue: amelioration
• Japanese: 改良 (ja) (kairyō)

• Portuguese: melhoramento (pt) m
• Romanian: ameliorare (ro) f, îmbunătățire (ro) f
• Serbo-Croatian: amelioracija (sh) f
• Spanish: mejoría (es) f, mejora (es) f, mejoramiento m
• Swedish: förbättring (sv)
• Yiddish: פֿאַרבעסערונג‎ f (farbeserung)

improvement

• Bulgarian: подобрение (bg) (podobrenie)
• Danish: forbedring (da)
• French: amélioration (fr) f
• German: Melioration (de) f, Verbesserung (de) f, Besserung f (medicine)
• Interlingue: amelioration
• Latin: meliōrātiō f

• Portuguese: melhora (pt) f, melhoria (pt) f
• Serbo-Croatian: amelioracija (sh) f, melioracija (sh) f
• Spanish: mejora (es) f
• Swedish: förbättring (sv)
• Yiddish: פֿאַרבעסערונג‎ f (farbeserung), תּיקון‎ m (tikn)

process in which a term gains a more positive connotation over time

• Serbo-Croatian: melioracija (sh) f