meliorateとは 意味・読み方・使い方

発音

• IPA: /ˈmiːli.əɹeɪt/

動詞

meliorate (third-person singular simple present meliorates, present participle meliorating, simple past and past participle meliorated)

1. (transitive) To make better; to improve; to solve a problem.

   They offered some compromises in an effort to meliorate the disagreement.

   • 1648, John Denham, Cato Major:

     Nature by art we nobly meliorate.

   • June 8, 1783, George Washington, Circular to the States

     […] and the pure and benign light of revelation have had a meliorating influence on mankind.

2. (intransitive) To become better.

同意語

• See also Thesaurus:improve
• ameliorate

派生語

関連する語

• ameliorate