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English

Adjective

corrective

Of or pertaining to correction; serving to correct
:As the currents were changing rapidly the captain had to make many corrective course changes.

Translations

Galician: {{t|gl|correctivo|xs=Galician}}

Spanish:

Noun

Something that corrects or counteracts something, especially an injury or disability

fr:corrective io:corrective pl:corrective ru:corrective fi:corrective te:corrective vi:corrective zh:corrective

GNU Project's publication of CIDE, the Collaborative International Dictionary of English 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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GNU Project's publication of CIDE, the Collaborative International Dictionary of English Corrective \Cor*rect"ive\ (k?rr-r?k"t?v), a. [Cf. F. correctif.]
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1. Having the power to correct; tending to rectify; as,
corrective penalties.
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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 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: disciplinary, disciplinal]
2: tending or intended to correct or counteract or restore to a
normal condition; "corrective measures"; "corrective
lenses"
n : a device for treating injury or disease [syn: restorative]

Moby Dictionary
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