Corrective Synonyms and Antonyms

kə-rĕktĭv
Tending to correct
(Adjective)
Synonyms:
  1. remedial
  2. reformatory
  3. amendatory
  4. restorative
  5. emendatory
  6. correctory
  7. disciplinaryemendatory
  8. reformative
  9. curative
  10. disciplinary
  11. rectifying
  12. healing
  13. gradualistic
  14. remedy
  15. inflictive
  16. salutary
  17. melioristic
  18. disciplinal
  19. penological
  20. reformational
  21. reformistic
  22. revisory
Antonyms:
  1. hurting
  2. injurious
  3. harmful
  4. hurtful
  5. paining
A device for treating injury or disease
(Noun)
Synonyms:
  1. restorative
Something that corrects or counteracts
(Noun)
Synonyms:
  1. antidote
  2. countermeasure
  3. curative
  4. cure
  5. remedy

Words Related to Corrective

Related words are words that are directly connected to each other through their meaning, even if they are not synonyms or antonyms. This connection may be general or specific, or the words may appear frequently together.

Corrective Sentence Examples

  • The city has a highly developed system of charitable and corrective institutions.

  • It is not about apathy and then corrective action.

  • He made mistakes, but he was willing to take ownership and responsible enough to take corrective action.

  • Maimonides, in his More Nevochim, states that the use of intense in the worship of the Jews originated as a corrective of the disagreeable odours arising from the slaughter and burning of the animals offered in sacrifice.

  • His perspective provides a much needed corrective to the anglo-centric and rather triumphalist nature of so much of the existing literature.

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