remedial
[ri-mee-dee-uhl]
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Origin of remedial
Synonyms
See more synonyms for on Thesaurus.com2. corrective.
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Related Words
corrective, therapeutic, antiseptic, curative, curing, healthful, invigorating, soothing, tonic, wholesome, reformative, medicinal, alleviative, antidotal, recuperative, remedying, restitutive, sanative, sanatoryExamples from the Web for remedial
Contemporary Examples
Pointing out that Nick Denton writes and speaks like a literate adult and not like a 14-year-old in remedial English.
In his remedial English class, he wrote these comic essays that the teacher actually read aloud in class.
If their students need lots of remedial instruction, the school can extend the school day, the school week, or the school year.
What Charter Schools Are Getting Right And Why They Top Our High School RankingsConor P. Williams
August 27, 2014
Historical Examples
And it is a process that requires time to do its remedial work, and there was no time.
Herbert HooverVernon Kellogg
The remedial measures are in each case too obvious to mention.
College TeachingPaul Klapper
As an adjective, it embraces the idea of supernatural as well as remedial.
His mission was one of enquiry, and for the suggestion of remedial measures.
The Story of My LifeEgerton Ryerson
No other remedial means are required, much less a surgical operation.
Apis MellificaC. W. Wolf
remedial
- affording a remedy; curative
- denoting or relating to special teaching, teaching methods, or material for backward and slow learnersremedial education
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Word Origin and History for remedial
adj.
1650s, "curing, relieving, affording a remedy," from Late Latin remedialis "healing, curing," from Latin remedium (see remedy (n.)). Educational sense of "concerned with improving skills" is first recorded 1924.
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