| Main Entry: | curative |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | healing, health-giving |
Synonyms: |
alleviative, beneficial, corrective, curing, healthful, helpful, invigorating, medicable, medicative, medicinal, pick-me-up, remedial, remedying, restorative, salutary, sanative, shot in the arm, therapeutic, tonic, vulnerary, what the doctor ordered, wholesome |
Antonyms: |
harmful, hurting, injurious, painful |
| Main Entry: | balm |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | something soothing |
Synonyms: |
alleviation, anodyne, assuagement, comfort, consolation, curative, cure, easement, mitigation, palliative, refreshment, relief, remedy, restorative, solace, soother |
| Main Entry: | corrective |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | healing, curing |
Synonyms: |
antidotal, counteracting, curative, disciplinary, palliative, penal, punitive, reformatory, rehabilitative, remedial, restorative, therapeutic |
Antonyms: |
harmful, hurtful, hurting, injurious, paining |
| Main Entry: | remedial |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | healing, restorative |
Synonyms: |
alleviative, antidotal, antiseptic, corrective, curative, curing, health-giving, healthful, invigorating, medicating, medicinal, purifying, recuperative, reformative, remedying, repairing, restitutive, sanative, sanatory, solving, soothing, therapeutic, tonic, treating, vulnerary, wholesome |
| Notes: | remediable means capable of relieving pain, curing disease, or correcting a disorder; remedial means tending or intended to rectify or improve |
Antonyms: |
damaging, harmful, hurtful, injurious |
| Main Entry: | therapeutic |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | healing |
Synonyms: |
ameliorative, analeptic, beneficial, corrective, curative, good, remedial, restorative, salubrious, salutary, sanative |
Antonyms: |
damaging, harmful, hurtful, injurious, untherapeutic |
| Main Entry: | healing |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | restorative |
Synonyms: |
curative, curing, invigorating, medicinal, mending, remedial |
| Main Entry: | medical |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | healing |
Synonyms: |
alleviating, cathartic, curative, disinfectant, medicating, medicinal, narcotic, pathological, peptic, pharmaceutical, preventive, prophylactic, restorative, salutary, sedative, therapeutic, tonic |
| Main Entry: | restorative |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | medicinal |
Synonyms: |
antidotal, corrective, curative, healthful, recuperative, remedial, therapeutic |
| Main Entry: | medical |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | pertainng to medicine |
Synonyms: |
aesculapian, corrective, curative, healing, iatric, iatrical, medicative, medicinal, therapeutic, therapeutical |
| Main Entry: | reformative |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | corrective |
Synonyms: |
amendatory, antidotal, counteracting, curative, disciplinary, emendatory, palliative, penal, punitive, reformatory, rehabilitative, remedial, restorative, therapeutic |