ameliorative vs central

ameliorative

adj
  • Suggesting or relating to a positive or approving evaluation. 

  • Of or relating to conceptual engineering, the normative study of which conceptual demarcation is most conducive to solve the problems the concept is a priori taken to solve. 

  • Able to repair or ameliorate. 

noun
  • A linguistic unit (such as a word, morpheme) that implies a positive or approving evaluation. 

  • That which betters or improves. 

central

adj
  • Being very important, or key to something. 

  • Having or containing the centre of something. 

  • Being in the centre. 

  • Exerting its action towards the peripheral organs. 

noun
  • centre 

How often have the words ameliorative and central occurred in a corpus of books? (source: Google Ngram Viewer )