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ameliorate perhaps from amelioration in some cases [1] annunciate perhaps from annunciation in some cases [1] anticline from anticlinal [5] antipode from antipodes (non-standard) appeal (n.) from Old French apel, back-formation from apeler [1] apperceive (in modern psychological use) from apperception [1]
When a term begins as pejorative and eventually is adopted in a non-pejorative sense, this is called melioration or amelioration. One example is the shift in meaning of the word nice from meaning a person was foolish to meaning that a person is pleasant. [6] When performed deliberately, it is described as reclamation or reappropriation. [7]
A contronym is alternatively called an autantonym, auto-antonym, antagonym, [3] [4] enantiodrome, enantionym, Janus word (after the Roman god Janus, who is usually depicted with two faces), [4] self-antonym, antilogy, or addad (Arabic, singular didd).
Amelioration may refer to: . Amelioration patterns, a software design pattern; Amelioration Act 1798, a statute in the Leeward Islands regarding the treatment of slaves; Rapid climatic amelioration, in geology, a major change from glacial to interglacial stages, specifically regarding transitions in the oxygen isotope ratio cycle
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Semantic change (also semantic shift, semantic progression, semantic development, or semantic drift) is a form of language change regarding the evolution of word usage—usually to the point that the modern meaning is radically different from the original usage.
The term antonym (and the related antonymy) is commonly taken to be synonymous with opposite, but antonym also has other more restricted meanings. Graded (or gradable) antonyms are word pairs whose meanings are opposite and which lie on a continuous spectrum (hot, cold).
In terms of linguistic theory, reappropriation can be seen as a specific case of a type of a semantic change, namely, of amelioration – a process through which a word's meaning becomes more positive over time. [4] Robin Brontsema suggested that there are at least three mutually exclusive goals of reclamation: [1] Value reversal; Neutralization