MELIORATIONS Synonyms: 62 Similar and Opposite Words

meliorations

noun

plural of melioration

as in increases

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Noun

Mortgage rate increases also could weaken housing demand and push prices lower.

— Don Sweeney, Sacbee.com, 21 Sep. 2026
Disease progresses, physiology deconditions, and clinical complexity increases.

— Alexandra Kharazi, Forbes.com, 21 Sep. 2026

Definition of increases

Noun

Lockheed also highlighted that its FLEX airframe will provide a modular airframe that gets ahead of subcomponent obsolescence, provides future capability enhancements to outpace threats and enable scalability at the production factory.

— Prabhat Ranjan Mishra, Interesting Engineering, 16 Sep. 2026
The agreement also calls for sentencing enhancements because the offense involved what federal guidelines describe as sophisticated money laundering.

— Antonio Maria Delgado, Miami Herald, 15 Sep. 2026

Definition of enhancements

Noun

Final design and engineering refinements for the Oceanside project are expected to continue through 2027.

— Phil Diehl, San Diego Union-Tribune, 16 Aug. 2026
Google says refinements to the Pixel Watch 5's GPS improve performance when tracking your location in big cities with skyscrapers.

— Andrew Gebhart, PC Magazine, 15 Aug. 2026

Definition of refinements

Noun

At the same time, medical advances and a dramatic decline in fertility rates have produced aging societies.

— Venki Ramakrishnan, Scientific American, 15 Sep. 2026
As researchers warn that artificial intelligence could pose catastrophic risks, some of the pioneers who helped develop the technology are weighing in with additional warnings on the dangers of unfettered advances in capability.

— Kai Nicol-Schwarz, CNBC, 15 Sep. 2026

Definition of advances

Noun

When breakthroughs are elusive, pursuing incremental gains and the steady destruction of enemy capacity becomes attractive.

— NADIA SCHADLOW, Foreign Affairs, 18 Sep. 2026
OpenAI’s advances have a head start here because, like many other recent AI math breakthroughs, the proofs came with a formal write-up in a proof assistant language called Lean.

— Jack Murtagh, Scientific American, 17 Sep. 2026

Definition of breakthroughs

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