Search Result for "corrective": 
Wordnet 3.0

NOUN (1)

1. a device for treating injury or disease;
[syn: corrective, restorative]


ADJECTIVE (2)

1. designed to promote discipline;
- Example: "the teacher's action was corrective rather than instructional"
- Example: "disciplinal measures"
- Example: "the mother was stern and disciplinary"
[syn: corrective, disciplinary, disciplinal]

2. tending or intended to correct or counteract or restore to a normal condition;
- Example: "corrective measures"
- Example: "corrective lenses"



The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48:

Corrective \Cor*rect"ive\, n.
   1. That which has the power of correcting, altering, or
      counteracting what is wrong or injurious; as, alkalies are
      correctives of acids; penalties are correctives of immoral
      conduct. --Burke.
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   2. Limitation; restriction. [Obs.] --Sir M. Hale.
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The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48:

Corrective \Cor*rect"ive\ (k?rr-r?k"t?v), a. [Cf. F. correctif.]
   [1913 Webster]
   1. Having the power to correct; tending to rectify; as,
      corrective penalties.
      [1913 Webster]

            Mulberries are pectoral, corrective of billious
            alkali.                               --Arbuthnot.
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   2. Qualifying; limiting. "The Psalmist interposeth . . . this
      corrective particle." --Holdsworth.
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WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006):

corrective
    adj 1: designed to promote discipline; "the teacher's action was
           corrective rather than instructional"; "disciplinal
           measures"; "the mother was stern and disciplinary" [syn:
           corrective, disciplinary, disciplinal]
    2: tending or intended to correct or counteract or restore to a
       normal condition; "corrective measures"; "corrective lenses"
    n 1: a device for treating injury or disease [syn: corrective,
         restorative]


Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0:

65 Moby Thesaurus words for "corrective":
   Fabian, adjuvant, aid, alterative, analeptic, antidote, assistance,
   balm, balsam, castigatory, chastening, chastising, counteractant,
   counteractive, counteragent, countermeasure, counterstep, curative,
   cure, disciplinary, emendatory, gradualistic, grueling, healing,
   healing agent, healing quality, help, iatric, inflictive,
   medicative, medicinal, melioristic, penal, penological,
   prescription, punishing, punitive, punitory, radical, receipt,
   recipe, reformational, reformative, reformatory, reformist,
   reformistic, relief, remedial, remedial measure, remedy,
   restorative, retributive, revisional, revisionist, revisory,
   revolutionary, sanative, sanatory, sovereign remedy, specific,
   specific remedy, succor, therapeutic, theriac, utopian