'Corrective' definitions:
Definition of 'corrective'
From: WordNet
adjective
Designed to promote discipline; "the teacher's action was corrective rather than instructional"; "disciplinal measures"; "the mother was stern and disciplinary" [syn: corrective, disciplinary, disciplinal]
adjective
Tending or intended to correct or counteract or restore to a normal condition; "corrective measures"; "corrective lenses"
noun
A device for treating injury or disease [syn: corrective, restorative]
Definition of 'Corrective'
From: GCIDE
- Corrective \Cor*rect"ive\ (k?rr-r?k"t?v), a. [Cf. F. correctif.] [1913 Webster]
- 1. Having the power to correct; tending to rectify; as, corrective penalties. [1913 Webster]
- Mulberries are pectoral, corrective of billious alkali. --Arbuthnot. [1913 Webster]
- 2. Qualifying; limiting. "The Psalmist interposeth . . . this corrective particle." --Holdsworth. [1913 Webster]
Definition of 'Corrective'
From: GCIDE
- Corrective \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. [1913 Webster]
- 2. Limitation; restriction. [Obs.] --Sir M. Hale. [1913 Webster]
Synonyms of 'corrective'
From: Moby Thesaurus
- 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
Words containing 'Corrective'
- Correct,
- Correctable,
- Corrected,
- Correctible,
- Correcting,
- Correction,
- Correctional,
- Correctly,
- Correctness,
- Under correction,
- corrections,
- Correction line,
- House of correction,
- To stand corrected,
- correctional institution,
- correctional rehabilitation,
- department of corrections,
- over-correct,
- political correctness,
- politically correct,
- corrective disciplinary disciplinal,
- error correction code,
- error-correcting code