Word Meanings - CORRECTIVE - Book Publishers vocabulary database

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.

Possible synonyms: (Same meaning words of CORRECTIVE)

• Medicine
• Remedy
• physic
• antidote
• therapeutics
• salve
• cure
• corrective
• Penal
• Retributive
• coercive
• visitatorial
• castigatory
• inflictive
• punitive
• Remedial
• Sanatory
• sanative
• alterative
• ameliorative
• mitigating
• curative
• healing
• restorative
• salubrious

Related words: (words related to CORRECTIVE)

• HEAL
  To cover, as a roof, with tiles, slate, lead, or the like.
• PENAL
  Of or pertaining to punishment, to penalties, or to crimes and offenses; pertaining to criminal jurisprudence: as: Enacting or threatening punishment; as, a penal statue; the penal code. Incurring punishment; subject to a penalty; as, a penalact
• MITIGATORY
  Tending to mitigate or alleviate; mitigative.
• RESTORATIVELY
  In a restorative manner.
• PHYSICKING
  p. pr. & vb. n. fr. Physic, v. t.
• HEALTHFULLY
  In health; wholesomely.
• PHYSICIST
  One versed in physics.
• PHYSICAL
  1. Of or pertaining to nature ; in accordance with the laws of nature; also, of or relating to natural or material things, or to the bodily structure, as opposed to things mental, moral, spiritual, or imaginary; material; natural; as, armies and
• PHYSICOLOGIC
  Logic illustrated by physics.
• PHYSICO-THEOLOGY
  Theology or divinity illustrated or enforced by physics or natural philosophy.
• HEALTHLESS
  1. Without health, whether of body or mind; in firm. "A healthless or old age." Jer. Taylor. 2. Not conducive to health; unwholesome.
• HEALTHFUL
  1. Full of health; free from illness or disease; well; whole; sound; healthy; as, a healthful body or mind; a healthful plant. 2. Serving to promote health of body or mind; wholesome; salubrious; salutary; as, a healthful air, diet. The healthful
• PHYSICO-MATHEMATICS
  Mixed mathematics.
• PHYSICISM
  The tendency of the mind toward, or its preoccupation with, physical phenomena; materialism in philosophy and religion. Anthropomorphism grows into theology, while physicism (if I may so call it) develops into science. Huxley.
• HEALING
  Tending to cure; soothing; mollifying; as, the healing art; a healing salve; healing words. Here healing dews and balms abound. Keble.
• REMEDIAL
  Affording a remedy; intended for a remedy, or for the removal or abatement of an evil; as, remedial treatment. Statutes are declaratory or remedial. Blackstone. It is an evil not compensated by any beneficial result; it is not remedial,
• MITIGATOR
  One who, or that which, mitigates.
• HEALTHFULNESS
  The state of being healthful.
• HEALD
  A heddle. Ure.
• COERCIVE
  Serving or intended to coerce; having power to constrain. -- Co*er"cive*ly, adv. -- Co*er"cive*ness, n. Coercive power can only influence us to outward practice. Bp. Warburton. Coercive or Coercitive force , the power or force which in iron or
• SELF-HEAL
  A blue-flowered labiate plant ; the healall.
• HYPERPHYSICAL
  Above or transcending physical laws; supernatural. Those who do not fly to some hyperphysical hypothesis. Sir W. Hamilton.
• METAPHYSICS
  first used by the followers of Aristotle as a name for that part of his writings which came after, or followed, the part which treated of 1. The science of real as distinguished from phenomenal being; ontology; also, the science of being, with
• CATAPHYSICAL
  Unnatural; contrary to nature. Some artists . . . have given to Sir Walter Scott a pile of forehead which is unpleassing and cataphysical. De Quincey.
• METAPHYSICALLY
  In the manner of metaphysical science, or of a metaphysician. South.
• DIARRHEAL; DIARRHOEAL
  Of or pertaining to diarrhea; like diarrhea.