Fillip vs Ameliorate - What's the difference?
fillip | ameliorate |
(archaic) A flick; the act of releasing the index finger from the hold of a thumb with a snap.
Something that excites or stimulates.
To strike or project with the nail of a finger snapped from the end of the thumb; flick.
* Shakespeare
To tap or strike smartly.
To make a fillip; drive by or as by a fillip; stimulate; excite; whet.
* 1851 ,
To snap; to project quickly.
* Tylor
To make better, to improve.
* Macaulay
As a proper noun fillip
is .As a verb ameliorate is
to make better, to improve.fillip
English
Noun
(en noun)- This measure gave a fillip to the housing market.
- This athlete's victory provided a much-needed fillip for national pride.
Verb
(en verb)- You fillip me o' the head.
- The spicy aroma filliped my appetite.
- Grand snoozing to-night, maty; fat night for that. I mark this in our old Mogul’s wine; it’s quite as deadening to some as filliping to others.
- the use of the elastic switch to fillip small missiles with
ameliorate
English
Verb
(ameliorat)- They offered some compromises in an effort to ameliorate the situation.
- In every human being there is a wish to ameliorate his own condition.
