Corrective
[kə'rektɪv] or [kə'rɛktɪv]
Definition
(noun.) a device for treating injury or disease.
(adj.) tending or intended to correct or counteract or restore to a normal condition; 'corrective measures'; 'corrective lenses' .
(adj.) designed to promote discipline; 'the teacher's action was corrective rather than instructional'; 'disciplinal measures'; 'the mother was stern and disciplinary' .
Edited by Harold--From WordNet
Definition
(a.) Having the power to correct; tending to rectify; as, corrective penalties.
(a.) Qualifying; limiting.
(n.) 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.
(n.) Limitation; restriction.
Checked by Debs
Synonyms and Antonyms
SYN:Regulative, alterative, preventative, restorative
ANT:Confirmative, conducive, provocative, stimulative, intensitive
Checker: Nicole
Examples
- The utilitarian principle is valuable as a corrective of error, and shows to us a side of ethics which is apt to be neglected. Plato. The Republic.
- Moore took it with a smile, half-corrective, half-grateful. Charlotte Bronte. Shirley.
- It is always a trial, said Mr. Bulstrode; but trial, my dear sir, is our portion here, and is a needed corrective. George Eliot. Middlemarch.
- Extreme, almost insane, as his doctrine undoubtedly is, it may have value as a corrective influence, an antidote for other extreme views. Walter Libby. An Introduction to the History of Science.
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