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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9 May 2025

RIGHT

(noun) anything in accord with principles of justice; “he feels he is in the right”; “the rightfulness of his claim”


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The earliest credible evidence of coffee-drinking as the modern beverage appeared in modern-day Yemen. In the middle of the 15th century in Sufi shrines where coffee seeds were first roasted and brewed for drinking. The Yemenis procured the coffee beans from the Ethiopian Highlands.

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