remedial
[ ri-mee-dee-uhl ]
/ rɪˈmi di əl /
adjective
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corrective, therapeutic, antiseptic, curative, curing, healthful, invigorating, soothing, tonic, wholesome, reformative, medicinal, alleviative, antidotal, recuperative, remedying, restitutive, sanative, sanatory
Nearby words
- remblai,
- rembrandt,
- rembrandt harmenszoon van rijn,
- reme,
- remediable,
- remedial reading,
- remediate,
- remediation,
- remediless,
- remedy
Origin of remedial
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remedial
/ (rɪˈmiːdɪəl) /
adjective
affording a remedy; curative
denoting or relating to special teaching, teaching methods, or material for backward and slow learnersremedial education
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remedial
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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