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treatment - 20 thesaurus results
| Main Entry: | treatment |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | medical care |
| Synonyms: | analysis, cure, diet, healing, medicine, operation, prescription, regimen, remedy, surgery, therapy, doctoring, hospitalization, medication, therapeutics |
| Antonyms: | harm, hurt, injury |
| Main Entry: | treatment |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | handling of entity, situation |
| Synonyms: | angle, approach, conduct, custom, employment, execution, habit, line, management, manipulation, manner, method, mode, modus operandi, practice, procedure, proceeding, reception, strategy, usage, way, action towards, behavior towards, dealing, processing |
| Main Entry: | cure |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | solution to problem, often health |
| Synonyms: | aid, antidote, assistance, corrective, drug, elixir, fix, healing, help, medicine, nostrum, panacea, placebo, quick fix*, recovery, redress, remedy, reparation, therapeutic, treatment, alleviation, catholicon, counteractant, counteragent, countermeasure, elixir vitae, healing agent, medicament, medicant, medication, pharmacon, physic, proprietary, restora-tive |
| Antonyms: | disease, problem |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | handling |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | management |
| Synonyms: | administration, approach, care, charge, conduct, direction, manipulation, running, supervision, treatment, styling, superintendence |
| Antonyms: | mismanagement |
| Main Entry: | literature |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | written matter, both fictional and nonfictional |
| Synonyms: | abstract, article, biography, brochure, comment, composition, critique, discourse, discussion, disquisition, dissertation, drama, essay, exposition, history, humanities, information, leaflet, lit, lore, novel, observation, pamphlet, paper, poetry, précis, prose, report, research, story, summary, theme, thesis, tract, treatise, treatment, belles-lettres, books, classics, findings, letters, literary works, writings, written work |
| Antonyms: | speech |
| Main Entry: | nostrum |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | cure-all, often ineffective |
| Synonyms: | cure, drug, elixir, fix, formula, medicine, panacea, patent medicine, potion, quick fix*, remedy, treatment, catholicon, home remedy, quack medicine |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | reading |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | interpretation of written word |
| Synonyms: | account, commentary, conception, construction, edification, education, erudition, examination, grasp, impression, inspection, knowledge, learning, lesson, paraphrase, perusal, rendition, review, scholarship, scrutiny, study, translation, treatment, understanding, version, book-learning, rendering |
| Antonyms: | writing |
| Main Entry: | remedy |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | cure, solution |
| Synonyms: | antidote, assistance, corrective, counteractive, cure-all*, drug, elixir, fix, improvement, medicine, panacea, pill, quick fix*, redress, relief, restorative, support, therapy, treatment, biologic, counteractant, counteraction, counteragent, countermeasure, counterstep, medicament, medicant, pharmaceutical, pharmacon, physic |
| Antonyms: | disease, injury, pain |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | usage |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | habit, custom |
| Synonyms: | acceptance, control, convention, currency, form, formula, handling, management, matter of course, method, mode, operation, practice, praxis, procedure, regime, regulation, rote, routine, rule, running, tradition, treatment, trick, use, way, wont, habitude |
| Notes: | the difference between use and usage consists primarily in the fact that the former has a specific, the latter a general sense |
| Main Entry: | use |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | application; employment |
| Synonyms: | account, adoption, advantage, appliance, appropriateness, avail, benefit, call, cause, convenience, custom, end, exercise, exertion, fitness, good, habit, handling, help, helpfulness, mileage, necessity, need, object, occasion, operation, point, practice, profit, purpose, reason, service, treatment, usage, usefulness, utility, value, way, wear and tear*, wont, worth, applicability, capitalization, exercising, mobilization, relevance, serviceability, usability |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | prophylaxis |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | precaution |
| Synonyms: | prevention, sanitation, treatment |
| Main Entry: | aid |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | help, support |
| Synonyms: | advancement, advice, advocacy, allowance, assist, assistance, attention, backing, backup, benefaction, benefit, benevolence, bounty, care, charity, comfort, compensation, cooperation, deliverance, encouragement, endowment, favor, furtherance, gift, giving, guidance, hand, handout, lift, ministry, patronage, promotion, reinforcement, relief, rescue, reward, salvation, service, subsidy, sustenance, treatment, alleviation, leg up, ministration, shot in the arm |
| Antonyms: | hindrance, impediment, injury, obstruction, blockage |
| Main Entry: | conduct |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | administration |
| Synonyms: | care, charge, control, direction, execution, guidance, handling, leadership, management, manipulation, organization, oversight, plan, policy, posture, red tape*, regimen, regulation, rule, running, strategy, supervision, tactics, transaction, treatment, carrying on, channels, intendance, superintendence, wielding |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | design |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | sketch, draft |
| Synonyms: | architecture, arrangement, blueprint, chart, composition, conception, constitution, construction, delineation, depiction, diagram, doodle, drawing, dummy, form, formation, idea, layout, makeup, map, method, model, outline, pattern, perspective, picture, plan, scheme, study, treatment, comp, paste-up, tracery, tracing |
| Main Entry: | plan |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | scheme, design, way of doing things |
| Synonyms: | aim, angle, animus, arrangement, big picture*, contrivance, deal, device, disposition, expedient, game plan, gimmick, idea, intent, intention, layout, machination, meaning, means, method, outline, pattern, picture, platform, plot, policy, procedure, program, project, projection, proposal, proposition, purpose, scenario, stratagem, strategy, suggestion, system, tactics, treatment, trick, undertaking, course of action, ground plan, orderliness |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | reception |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | acceptance; acknowledgment |
| Synonyms: | accession, acquisition, admission, disposition, encounter, gathering, greeting, induction, introduction, meeting, reaction, receipt, receiving, recognition, response, salutation, treatment, welcome, recipience |
| Antonyms: | disacknowledgment |
| Main Entry: | attention |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | consideration, care |
| Synonyms: | awareness, brace, concern, consciousness, notice, observation, recognition, regard, spotlight, treatment, TLC, big rush, looking after, ministration, tender loving care |
| Antonyms: | disregard, neglect, negligence |
| Main Entry: | piece |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | work of art, music, writing |
| Synonyms: | arrangement, article, bit, composition, creation, discourse, dissertation, engraving, exposition, icon, item, painting, paper, part, photograph, print, production, sketch, song, statue, study, theme, thesis, treatise, treatment, vignette, work, lines |
| Main Entry: | style |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | way of speaking, writing, expressing oneself |
| Synonyms: | diction, expression, phraseology, treatment, vein, wording, mode of expression, phrasing, turn of phrase |
| Main Entry: | application |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | putting substance on another |
| Synonyms: | administration, treatment, administering, applying, creaming, dosing, oiling, rubbing |
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