The Collaborative International Dictionary
ameliorating \ameliorating\ adj. prenom. [p. pr. of ameliorate.] causing improvement in or reducing the bad effects of an unfavorable condition.
Syn: ameliorative, amelioratory, meliorative
Wiktionary
vb. (present participle of ameliorate English)
WordNet
adj. tending to ameliorate [syn: ameliorating(a), ameliorative, amelioratory, meliorative]
Usage examples of "ameliorating".
The national interest is merely a more coherent and ameliorating expression of the popular interest.
This assembly represented the necessity of ameliorating the existing laws regarding vagrancy, the relation between master and servant, the state of the militia, and the electoral qualification.
He did not seem to grasp that these were only symptoms, nor did he have much success at ameliorating them.
All this ameliorating cultivation has at last built up in the native women a profound respect for chastity--in other people.