ameliorative vs corrective

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. 

corrective

adj
  • Of or pertaining to correction; serving to correct. 

noun
  • Something that corrects or counteracts something. 

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