curative

About 1.45 uses per million words.

Meaning

1. adjective Possessing the ability to cure, to heal or treat illness.

   The curative power of the antibiotics introduced in the 1950s was amazing at the time.

2. adjective Remediative.

   a curative jury instruction to disregard the sheriff's testimony

3. noun A substance that acts as a cure.
4. adjective of a verb, conveying the meaning "the agent makes a patient do something"

Similar words

cure sanative remedial remedy healthful therapeutic alterative healing curing remediation

Often followed by

treatment powers and properties effect power medicine in resection

Word family

curatively curatives