Word Meanings - REMEDIAL - Book Publishers vocabulary database

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,

Additional info about word: 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, not conservative. I. Taylor.

Possible synonyms: (Same meaning words of REMEDIAL)

• Restorative
• Compensatory
• remedial
• reparatory
• invigorating
• Sanatory
• Curative
• sanative
• therapeutic
• hygienic
• sanitary

Related words: (words related to REMEDIAL)

• 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.
• INVIGORATION
  The act of invigorating, or the state of being invigorated.
• 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,
• REMEDIALLY
  In a remedial manner.
• HYGIENICS
  The science of health; hygiene.
• HYGIENIC
  Of or pertaining to health or hygiene; sanitary.
• INVIGORATE
  To give vigor to; to strengthen; to animate; to give life and energy to. Christian graces and virtues they can not be, unless fed, invigorated, and animated by universal charity. Atterbury. Syn. -- To refresh; animate; exhilarate; stimulate.
• THERAPEUTIC
  One of the Therapeutæ.
• RESTORATIVE
  Of or pertaining to restoration; having power to restore. Destroys life's enemy, Hunger, with sweet restorative delight. Milton.
• THERAPEUTICS
  That part of medical science which treats of the discovery and application of remedies for diseases.
• COMPENSATORY
  Serving for compensation; making amends. Jer. Taylor.
• THERAPEUTIC; THERAPEUTICAL
  Of or pertaining to the healing art; concerned in discovering and applying remedies for diseases; curative. "Therapeutic or curative physic." Sir T. Browne. Medicine is justly distributed into "prophylactic," or the art of preserving health, and
• SANATORY
  Conducive to health; tending to cure; healing; curative; sanative. Sanatory ordinances for the protection of public health, such as quarantine, fever hospitals, draining, etc. De Quincey. Note: Sanatory and sanitary should not be confounded.
• SANATIVE
  Having the power to cure or heal; healing; tending to heal; sanatory. -- San"a*tive*ness, n.
• CURATIVE
  Relating to, or employed in, the cure of diseases; tending to cure. Arbuthnot.
• REINVIGORATE
  To invigorate anew.
• INSANITARY
  Not sanitary; unhealthy; as, insanitary conditions of drainage.
• DISINVIGORATE
  To enervate; to weaken. Sydney Smith.
• ELECTRO-THERAPEUTICS
  The branch of medical science which treats of the applications agent.
• PREPARATORY
  Preparing the way for anything by previous measures of adaptation; antecedent and adapted to what follows; introductory; preparative; as, a preparatory school; a preparatory condition.
• HYDROTHERAPEUTICS
  A system of treating disease by baths and mineral waters.