curative

Meanings

Plural: curatives

Noun

• 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"

Synonyms

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

Related Words

remedial, therapeutic

Anagrams of curative