curative

[kyoo r-uh-tiv]

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adjective

serving to cure or heal; pertaining to curing or remedial treatment; remedial.

noun

a curative agent; remedy.

Origin of curative

1375–1425; late Middle English < Middle French curatif < Medieval Latin cūrātīvus, equivalent to Late Latin cūrāt(us) (past participle of curāre to care for, attend to; see cure); see -ive

Related formscur·a·tive·ly, adverbnon·cur·a·tive, adjectivenon·cur·a·tive·ly, adverbnon·cur·a·tive·ness, nounsub·cur·a·tive, noun, adjective

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Examples from the Web for curative

Contemporary Examples

But in all cases, the appropriate course of antibiotics has been curative.
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Russell Saunders
September 19, 2014
For thousands of years men and women in many cultures have used cannabis as a curative and a source of fiber and oil.
Victory for Pot Means Beginning of the End of Our Crazy Drug War
Martin A. Lee
November 8, 2012
Nora could arm and disarm within a sentence, could wield a barb and its curative salve within a phrase.
Remembering Nora Ephron as Our Dorothy Parker, but More
Stephen Schiff
June 27, 2012
Nobel Prize winner Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn credited kombucha with curative properties in his novel The Cancer Ward.
Is Celebrity Favorite Kombucha Really a Health and Anti-Aging Cure?
Anneli Rufus
February 28, 2012
Since the liver regenerates, “that can be curative—or at least it can let patients do a lot better.”
Jobs’s Unorthodox Treatment
Sharon Begley
October 6, 2011

Historical Examples

And yet if I suffer it can only be with what I may call a curative suffering.
The Conquest of Fear
Basil King
And if it did promote perspiration, one can well believe that it might be curative.
Storyology
Benjamin Taylor
The psychological work of the physician does not begin with his curative efforts.
Psychotherapy
Hugo Mnsterberg
The curative effect on bodily disabilities is thus often an illusory one.
Psychotherapy
Hugo Mnsterberg
The envoy's description of Francis's curative power is interesting.
The Rise of the Hugenots, Vol. 1 (of 2)
Henry Martyn Baird

British Dictionary definitions for curative

curative

adjective

able or tending to cure

noun

anything able to heal or cure

Derived Formscuratively, adverbcurativeness, noun

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Word Origin and History for curative

adj.

early 15c., from Old French curatif (15c.) "curative, healing," from Latin curat-, past participle stem of curare "to cure" (see cure (v.)). As a noun, attested from 1857.

curative in Medicine

curative

(kyur′ə-tĭv)

adj.

Serving or tending to cure.
Of or relating to the cure of disease.

Something that cures; a remedy.

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Examples from the Web for curative

Contemporary Examples

But in all cases, the appropriate course of antibiotics has been curative.

For thousands of years men and women in many cultures have used cannabis as a curative and a source of fiber and oil.

Nora could arm and disarm within a sentence, could wield a barb and its curative salve within a phrase.

Nobel Prize winner Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn credited kombucha with curative properties in his novel The Cancer Ward.

Since the liver regenerates, “that can be curative—or at least it can let patients do a lot better.”

Historical Examples

And yet if I suffer it can only be with what I may call a curative suffering.

And if it did promote perspiration, one can well believe that it might be curative.

The psychological work of the physician does not begin with his curative efforts.

The curative effect on bodily disabilities is thus often an illusory one.

The envoy's description of Francis's curative power is interesting.

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Word Origin and History for curative

adj.

curative

Origin of curative