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Conciliatory vs Ameliorate - What's the difference?

conciliatory | ameliorate |

As an adjective conciliatory

is willing to conciliate, or to make concessions.

As a verb ameliorate is

to make better, to improve.

conciliatory

English

Adjective

(en adjective)
  • willing to conciliate, or to make concessions
  • * 2013 June 18, , " Protests Widen as Brazilians Chide Leaders," New York Times (retrieved 21 June 2013):
    • Shaken by the biggest challenge to their authority in years, Brazil’s leaders made conciliatory gestures on Tuesday to try to defuse the protests engulfing the nation’s cities.

    Antonyms

    * unconciliatory

    Derived terms

    * conciliatoriness

    ameliorate

    English

    Verb

    (ameliorat)
  • To make better, to improve.
    • They offered some compromises in an effort to ameliorate the situation.
  • * Macaulay
    • In every human being there is a wish to ameliorate his own condition.

    Related terms

    * amelioration * ameliorative * ameliorable * inameliorable * meliorate

    Synonyms

    * See also

    Antonyms

    * deteriorate * worsen