REMEDIAL
remedial
(adjective) tending or intended to rectify or improve; “a remedial reading course”; “remedial education”
curative, healing, alterative, remedial, sanative, therapeutic
(adjective) tending to cure or restore to health; “curative powers of herbal remedies”; “her gentle healing hand”; “remedial surgery”; “a sanative environment of mountains and fresh air”; “a therapeutic agent”; “therapeutic diets”
Source: WordNet® 3.1
Etymology
Adjective
remedial (comparative more remedial, superlative most remedial)
curative; providing a remedy
intended to correct or improve deficient skills in some subject
Anagrams
• remailed
Source: Wiktionary
Re*me"di*al (-al), a. Etym: [L. remedialis.]
Definition: Affording a remedy; intended for a remedy, or for the removal or abatement of an evil; as, remedial treatment. Statutes are declaratory or remedial. Blackstone. It is an evil not compensated by any beneficial result; it is not remedial, not conservative. I. Taylor.
Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition
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