ameliorative

Meanings

1. Able to repair or ameliorate.
2. Suggesting or relating to a positive or approving evaluation.
3. 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.

1. That which betters or improves.
2. A linguistic unit (such as a word, morpheme) that implies a positive or approving evaluation.

Etymology

From ameliorate + -ive.