Remedial

English

Adjective

Remedial (comparative more Remedial, superlative most Remedial)

1. curative; providing a remedy
2. intended to correct or improve deficient skills in some subject

Related terms

• remediable
• remedy

Thesaurus

adjuvant, aidful, alleviating, alleviative, alterative, analeptic, analgesic, anesthetic, anodyne, assuasive, balmy, balsamic, beneficial, benumbing, cathartic, cleansing, conducive, constructive, contributory, corrective, curative, curing, deadening, demulcent, dulling, easing, emollient, furthersome, good for, healing, helpful, iatric, lenitive, medicative, medicinal, mitigating, mitigative, numbing, pain-killing, palliative, positive, profitable, purgative, relieving, reparative, reparatory, restitutive, restitutory, restorative, salutary, sanative, sanatory, serviceable, softening, soothing, subduing, therapeutic, theriac, useful, vulnerary, wholesome

Etymology

From Latin remedialis

Translations

curative; providing a remedy

Norwegian: bøtende (no), helbredende (no), legende (no)

intended to correct or improve deficient skills

Norwegian: hjelpe- (no)