Therapeutic Synonyms and Antonyms

thĕrə-pyo͝otĭk
Serving to cure
(Adjective)
Synonyms:
  1. remedial
  2. curative
  3. healing
  4. beneficial
  5. good
  6. alterative
  7. therapeutical
  8. sanative
  9. corrective
  10. restorative
  11. medical
Antonyms:
  1. damaging
  2. harmful
  3. untherapeutic
  4. hurtful
  5. injurious
A medicine or therapy that cures disease or relieve pain
(Noun)
Synonyms:
  1. remedy
  2. curative
  3. cure

Words Related to Therapeutic

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.

Therapeutic Sentence Examples

  • Maybe it was therapeutic for him in some way.

  • Powdered, it has little effect upon the skin, but in ointment or used by fumigation it has local therapeutic properties.

  • The oil is very readily absorbed from the skin and exerts all its therapeutic actions when thus exhibited.

  • Aloin is preferable to aloes for therapeutic purposes, as it causes less, if any, pain.

  • A number of salts of thorium have been prepared for therapeutic use, including the hydroxide, nitrate, salicylate, oleate and lactate.

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