'Remedial' definitions:
Definition of 'remedial'
(from WordNet)
adjective
Tending or intended to rectify or improve; "a remedial reading course"; "remedial education"
adjective
Tending to cure or restore to health; "curative powers of herbal remedies"; "her gentle healing hand"; "remedial surgery"; "a sanative environment of mountains and fresh air"; "a therapeutic agent"; "therapeutic diets" [syn: curative, healing(p), alterative, remedial, sanative, therapeutic]
Definition of 'Remedial'
From: GCIDE
- Remedial \Re*me"di*al\ (-al), a. [L. remedialis.] Affording a remedy; intended for a remedy, or for the removal or abatement of an evil; as, remedial treatment. [1913 Webster]
- Statutes are declaratory or remedial. --Blackstone. [1913 Webster]
- It is an evil not compensated by any beneficial result; it is not remedial, not conservative. --I. Taylor. [1913 Webster]
Synonyms of 'remedial'
From: Moby Thesaurus
- adjuvant,
- aidful,
- alleviating,
- alleviative,
- alterative,
- analeptic,
- analgesic,
- anesthetic,
- anodyne,
- assuasive,
- balmy,
- balsamic,
- beneficial,
- benumbing,
- cathartic,
- cleansing,
- conducive,
- constructive,
- contributory,
- corrective,
- curative,
- curing,
- deadening,
- demulcent,
- dulling,
- easing,
- emollient,
- furthersome,
- good for,
- healing,
- helpful,
- iatric,
- lenitive,
- medicative,
- medicinal,
- mitigating,
- mitigative,
- numbing,
- pain-killing,
- palliative,
- positive,
- profitable,
- purgative,
- relieving,
- reparative,
- reparatory,
- restitutive,
- restitutory,
- restorative,
- salutary,
- sanative,
- sanatory,
- serviceable,
- softening,
- soothing,
- subduing,
- therapeutic,
- theriac,
- useful,
- vulnerary,
- wholesome