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Corrective
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What's The Definition Of Corrective?
[n] a device for treating injury or disease
[adj] tending or intended to correct or counteract or restore to a normal condition; "corrective measures"; "corrective lenses" [adj] designed to promote discipline; "the teacher's action was corrective rather than instructional"; "disciplinal measures"; "the mother was stern and disciplinary" Synonyms | Synonyms for Corrective: bettering | disciplinal | disciplinary | nonindulgent | restorative Related Terms | Find terms related to Corrective: adjuvant | aid | alterative | analeptic | antidote | assistance | balm | balsam | castigatory | chastening | chastising | counteractant | counteractive | counteragent | countermeasure | counterstep | curative | cure | disciplinary | emendatory | Fabian | gradualistic | grueling | healing | healing agent | healing quality | help | iatric | inflictive | medicative | medicinal | melioristic | penal | penological | prescription | punishing | punitive | punitory | radical | receipt | recipe | reformational | reformative | reformatory | reformist | reformistic | relief | remedial | remedial measure | remedy | restorative | retributive | revisional | revisionist | revisory | revolutionary | sanative | sanatory | sovereign remedy | specific | specific remedy | succor | therapeutic | theriac | utopian See Also | device | face pack | pack | pick-me-up | pickup | prosthesis | prosthetic device Corrective In Webster's Dictionary \Cor*rect"ive\ (k?rr-r?k"t?v), a. [Cf. F. correctif.]
1. Having the power to correct; tending to rectify; as,
corrective penalties.
Mulberries are pectoral, corrective of billious
alkali. --Arbuthnot.
2. Qualifying; limiting. ``The Psalmist interposeth . . .
this corrective particle.'' --Holdsworth.
\Cor*rect"ive\, n. 1. That which has the power of correcting, altering, or counteracting what is wrong or injurious; as, alkalies are correctives of acids; penalties are correctives of immoral conduct. --Burke. 2. Limitation; restriction. [Obs.] --Sir M. Hale. |
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