ameliorative
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Definition
adj (English)
1. (linguistics) Suggesting or relating to a positive or approving evaluation.Examples: "[…]personal nicknames can generally be divided into positively marked (ameliorative) ones, usually given by family members and friends as a sign of affection and acceptance, and those negatively marked (pejorative or derogatory), whose aim is to mock or ridicule a person[…]"
2. (philosophy) Of or relating to conceptual engineering, the normative study of which conceptual demarcation is most conducive to solve the problems the concept is a priori taken to solve.Examples: "ameliorative inquiry"; "ameliorative analysis"; "ameliorative project"
noun (English)
1. (linguistics, rare) A linguistic unit (such as a word, morpheme) that implies a positive or approving evaluation.Examples: "Moreover, diminutives, augmentatives, pejoratives and amelioratives have always been analysed as independent categories, neglecting the possible interrelations among them."Antonyms: pejorativerare
Definition source: Wiktionary