# ameliorate

- **Language:** English
- **Level:** C2 (Proficient)
- **Part of speech:** verb
- **Pronunciation:** /əˈmiːliəreɪt/
- **English:** to make a bad situation better
- **Persian:** بهبود بخشیدن

## Example

> New policies aim to ameliorate living conditions.
> سیاست‌های جدید قصد دارند شرایط زندگی را بهبود ببخشند.

## Word forms

- noun: amelioration

## Synonyms

improve, better

## Opposites

worsen

## Common phrases

- ameliorate conditions
- ameliorate the effects
- ameliorate suffering

## Related words

- [improve](https://langai.darkube.ir/vocabulary/english/improve): to become better or to make something better (B1)
- [abate](https://langai.darkube.ir/vocabulary/english/abate): to become less strong or severe (C2)
- [immutable](https://langai.darkube.ir/vocabulary/english/immutable): never changing or impossible to change (C2)
- [deteriorate](https://langai.darkube.ir/vocabulary/english/deteriorate): to become worse (C1)
- [diminish](https://langai.darkube.ir/vocabulary/english/diminish): to become smaller or less important (C1)
- [exacerbate](https://langai.darkube.ir/vocabulary/english/exacerbate): to make a bad situation worse (C1)
- [fluctuate](https://langai.darkube.ir/vocabulary/english/fluctuate): to change often, rising and falling (C1)
- [mitigate](https://langai.darkube.ir/vocabulary/english/mitigate): to make something less harmful or serious (C1)

Source: https://langai.darkube.ir/vocabulary/english/ameliorate