| Main Entry: | reformative |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | corrective |
Synonyms: |
amendatory, antidotal, counteracting, curative, disciplinary, emendatory, palliative, penal, punitive, reformatory, rehabilitative, remedial, restorative, therapeutic |
| 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: | amendatory |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | corrective |
Synonyms: |
bettering, emendatory, improving, rectifying, reformative, reformatory, reparative, restorative |
| Main Entry: | emendatory |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | corrective |
Synonyms: |
amendatory, improving, rectifying, reformative, reformatory |