ameliorate
Verb
- to make better; “The editor improved the manuscript with his changes”
- Synonyms
- better
- improve
- amend
- meliorate
- Antonyms
- worsen
- aggravate
- exacerbate
- exasperate
- Less specific
- More specific
- relieve
- alleviate
- palliate
- assuage
- help
- aid
- regenerate
- revitalize
- enrich
- build up
- develop
- turn around
- help
- upgrade
- condition
- emend
- iron out
- straighten out
- put right
- enhance
- repair
- mend
- fix
- bushel
- doctor
- furbish up
- restore
- touch on
- reform
- reform
- fancify
- beautify
- embellish
- prettify
- build
- perfect
- hone
- polish
- refine
- fine-tune
- down
- purify
- sublimate
- make pure
- distill
- fructify
- raise
- lift
- advance
- upgrade
- educate
- Causes
- better
- improve
- ameliorate
- meliorate
- Related
- ameliorating
- ameliorative
- amelioratory
- meliorative
- improvement
- melioration
- amelioration
- melioration
- betterment
- ameliorating
- ameliorative
- amelioratory
- meliorative
- ameliorating
- ameliorative
- amelioratory
- meliorative
- amelioration
- melioration
- betterment
- amendable
- correctable
- improvement
- humanitarian
- do-gooder
- improver
- addition
- add-on
- improver
- amelioration
- melioration
- betterment
- better
- get better; “The weather improved toward evening”
- Synonyms
- Antonyms
- Less specific
- More specific
- recuperate
- recover
- convalesce
- heal
- reform
- straighten out
- see the light
- surge
- turn around
- pick up
- get well
- get over
- bounce back
- mend
- heal
- fructify
- upgrade
- Related
- ameliorating
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- amelioratory
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- improvement
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- melioration
- betterment
- ameliorating
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- meliorative
- ameliorating
- ameliorative
- amelioratory
- meliorative
- amelioration
- melioration
- betterment
- improvement
- melioration
- improvement
- betterment
- advance
- improvement
- betterment
- advance
- better
- Formal make (something bad or unsatisfactory) better
the reform did much to ameliorate living standards
Thesaurus
Verb
- any move that ameliorates the situation is welcome
Similar Words: improve make better better make improvements to enhance help benefit boost raise amend refine reform relieve ease mitigate retrieve rectify correct right put right set right put to rights sort out clear up deal with remedy repair fix cure heal mend make good resolve settle redress square tweak patch up
Opposites: worsen leave alone