corrective
Meanings
Plural: correctives
Noun
- a device for treating injury or disease
- Something that corrects or counteracts something.
- Limitation; restriction.
Adjective Satellite
- designed to promote discipline
- "the teacher's action was corrective rather than instructional"
- tending or intended to correct or counteract or restore to a normal condition
- "corrective measures"
- "corrective lenses"
Adj
- Of or pertaining to correction; serving to correct.
- Qualifying; limiting.
Origin / Etymology
Borrowed from French correctif, equivalent to correct + -ive.
Synonyms
Scrabble Score: 17
corrective is a valid Scrabble (US) TWL wordcorrective is a valid Scrabble Word in Merriam-Webster MW Dictionary
corrective is a valid Scrabble Word in International Collins CSW Dictionary
Words With Friends Score: 20
corrective is a valid Words With Friends word