ameliorative vs productive

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. 

productive

adj
  • Yielding good or useful results; constructive. 

  • Of a cough, producing mucus or sputum from the respiratory tract. 

  • Of inflammation, producing new tissue. 

  • Capable of producing something, especially in abundance; fertile. 

  • Of, or relating to the creation of goods or services. 

  • Consistently applicable to any of an open set of words. 

  • A type of set of natural numbers, related to mathematical logic. 

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