curative

Plural: curatives

Noun

• A substance or treatment that promotes healing or a cure.
• a medicine or therapy that cures disease or relieve pain
• A substance that acts as a cure.

Adjective Satellite

• tending to cure or restore to health
  • "curative powers of herbal remedies"

Adj

• Possessing the ability to cure, to heal or treat illness.
• Remediative.
• of a verb, conveying the meaning "the agent makes a patient do something"

Examples

• a curative jury instruction to disregard the sheriff's testimony
• Finding a seven-letter word on a triple-word score felt like a CURATIVE for his low-scoring game.
• The curative power of the antibiotics introduced in the 1950s was amazing at the time.

Synonyms

alterative, cure, healing, remedial, remedy, sanative, therapeutic

Related Words

remedial, therapeutic

Anagrams of curative