Word Meanings - CURATIVE - Book Publishers vocabulary database
Relating to, or employed in, the cure of diseases; tending to cure. Arbuthnot.
Possible synonyms: (Same meaning words of CURATIVE)
- Remedial
- Sanatory
- sanative
- alterative
- ameliorative
- mitigating
- corrective
- curative
- healing
- restorative
- salubrious
- Curative
- remedial
- therapeutic
- hygienic
- sanitary
Related words: (words related to CURATIVE)
- MITIGATORY
Tending to mitigate or alleviate; mitigative. - RESTORATIVELY
In a restorative manner. - SANITARY
Of or pertaining to health; designed to secure or preserve health; relating to the preservation or restoration of health; hygienic; as, sanitary regulations. See the Note under Sanatory. Sanitary Commission. See under Commission. - HEALTHFULLY
In health; wholesomely. - 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 - 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. - HEALTHSOME
Wholesome; salubrious. "Healthsome air." Shak. - REMEDIALLY
In a remedial manner. - HEALTHWARD
In the direction of health; as, a healthward tendency. - HYGIENICS
The science of health; hygiene. - HYGIENIC
Of or pertaining to health or hygiene; sanitary. - HEALTH
1. The state of being hale, sound, or whole, in body, mind, or soul; especially, the state of being free from physical disease or pain. There is no health in us. Book of Common Prayer. Though health may be enjoyed without gratitude, it can not - HEALINGLY
So as to heal or cure. - HEALFUL
Tending or serving to heal; healing. Ecclus. xv. 3. - HEALALL
A common herb of the Mint family , destitute of active properties, but anciently thought a panacea. - SELF-HEAL
A blue-flowered labiate plant ; the healall. - HEAL
To cover, as a roof, with tiles, slate, lead, or the like. - DIARRHEAL; DIARRHOEAL
Of or pertaining to diarrhea; like diarrhea. - LARYNGOTRACHEAL
Pertaining to both larynx and trachea; as, the laryngotracheal cartilage in the frog. - OXHEAL
See BEAR'S-FOOT - INSANITARY
Not sanitary; unhealthy; as, insanitary conditions of drainage.