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Noun melioration has 3 senses

• melioration(n = noun.act) amelioration, betterment - the act of relieving ills and changing for the better; Array
is a kind of improvement
Derived forms verb meliorate₂, verb meliorate₁

• melioration(n = noun.state) improvement - a condition superior to an earlier condition; "the new school represents a great improvement"
is a kind of condition, status
has particulars: betterment, development, reformation, refurbishment, renovation, restoration
Derived forms verb meliorate₂, verb meliorate₁

• melioration(n = noun.process) Array - the linguistic process in which over a period of time a word grows more positive in connotation or more elevated in meaning; Array
is a kind of drift
Derived form verb meliorate₂

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melioration

Improvement

N improvement, amelioration, melioration, betterment, mend, amendment, emendation, mending, advancement, advance, ascent, promotion, preferment, elevation, increase, cultivation, civilization, culture, march of intellect, menticulture, race-culture, eugenics, reform, reformation, revision, radical reform, second thoughts, correction, limoe labor, refinement, elaboration, purification, oxidation, repair, recovery, revise, new edition, reformer, radical, improving, progressive, improved, better, better off, better for, all the better for, better advised, reformatory, emendatory, reparatory, remedial, corrigible, improvable, accultural, on consideration, on reconsideration, on second thoughts, on better advice, ad melius inquirendum, urbent latericiam invenit marmoream reliquit.

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