| 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: | 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: | cosmetic |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | beautifying; relating to appearance |
Synonyms: |
corrective, gooky, improving, makeup, nonessential, painted, remedial, restorative, superficial, surface, touching-up |
Antonyms: |
disfiguring |
| 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: | emollient |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | soothing |
Synonyms: |
balsamic, demulcent, healing, lenitive, palliative, relieving, remedial, softening |
| 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 |
| Notes: | healing is a process in which an organism's health is restored; curing is a method that promotes healing |
| Main Entry: | medicinal |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | curative |
Synonyms: |
curing, healing, medical, medicative, remedial, restorative, therapeutic |
| Main Entry: | restorative |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | medicinal |
Synonyms: |
antidotal, corrective, curative, healthful, recuperative, remedial, therapeutic |
| Main Entry: | medicinal |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | curative |
Synonyms: |
aesculapian, curing, healing, medical, medicative, pharmaceutic, remedial, salutary, therapeutic |