Search Result for "therapeutic":
Wordnet 3.0
NOUN (1)
1. a medicine or therapy that cures disease or relieve pain;
[syn: remedy, curative, cure, therapeutic]
ADJECTIVE (2)
1. tending to cure or restore to health;
- Example: "curative powers of herbal remedies"
- Example: "her gentle healing hand"
- Example: "remedial surgery"
- Example: "a sanative environment of mountains and fresh air"
- Example: "a therapeutic agent"
- Example: "therapeutic diets"
[syn: curative, healing(p), alterative, remedial, sanative, therapeutic]
2. relating to or involved in therapy;
- Example: "therapeutic approach to criminality"
[syn: therapeutic, therapeutical]
The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48:
Therapeutic \Ther`a*peu"tic\, n. One of the Therapeutae. [1913 Webster]The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48:
Therapeutic \Ther`a*peu"tic\, Therapeutical \Ther`a*peu"tic*al\, a. [F. th['e]rapeutique, Gr. ?, from ? attendant, servant, ? to serve, take care of, treat medically, ? attendant, servant.] (Med.) Of or pertaining to the healing art; concerned in discovering and applying remedies for diseases; curative. "Therapeutic or curative physic." --Sir T. Browne. [1913 Webster] Medicine is justly distributed into "prophylactic," or the art of preserving health, and therapeutic, or the art of restoring it. --I. Watts. [1913 Webster]Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0:
30 Moby Thesaurus words for "therapeutic": adjuvant, aidful, alterative, analeptic, beneficial, conducive, constructive, contributory, corrective, curative, furthersome, good for, healing, healthy, helpful, iatric, medical, medicative, medicinal, positive, profitable, remedial, restorative, salubrious, salutary, sanative, sanatory, serviceable, theriac, useful
