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Ameliorative vs Deteriorative - What's the difference?

ameliorative | deteriorative | Antonyms |

Ameliorative is an antonym of deteriorative.


As adjectives the difference between ameliorative and deteriorative

is that ameliorative is able to repair or ameliorate while deteriorative is causing deterioration.

ameliorative

English

Adjective

(en adjective)
  • Able to repair or ameliorate.

    • deteriorative

    English

    Adjective

    (en adjective)
  • Causing deterioration.
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    • , passage=This schema is especially fruitful for Mr. McGirk because if he tries to adapt our situation to this model it simultaneously exposes a “war crime cover-up” and shows the deteriorative (albeit exaggerated) effects of war on U.S. marines (the best of the best), which could be expanded by the general press as a testament for why the U.S. should pull out of Iraq. }}

    Antonyms

    * ameliorative * nondeteriorative