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Melioration

nounverified·updated May 18, 2026

the linguistic process in which over a period of time a word grows more positive in connotation or more elevated in meaning

polysemous

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Variants

synonym
ameliorationimprovement
plural
Meliorations
possessive
Melioration's
pluralpossessive
Meliorations'