Corrective Definition

kə-rĕktĭv
correctives
adjective
Tending or meant to correct or improve; remedial.
Webster's New World

Of or pertaining to correction; serving to correct.

As the currents were changing rapidly, the captain had to make many corrective course changes.
Wiktionary
Qualifying; limiting.
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noun
correctives
An agent that corrects.
American Heritage
Something corrective; remedy.
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Other Word Forms of Corrective

Noun

Singular:
corrective
Plural:
correctives

Origin of Corrective

  • From French correctif

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Corrective Sentence Examples

  • The city has a highly developed system of charitable and corrective institutions.

  • It is not about apathy and then corrective action.

  • He made mistakes, but he was willing to take ownership and responsible enough to take corrective action.

  • His wife's prudence was a corrective to his own unpractical temperament, and his efforts in journalism became fairly profitable.

  • Maimonides, in his More Nevochim, states that the use of intense in the worship of the Jews originated as a corrective of the disagreeable odours arising from the slaughter and burning of the animals offered in sacrifice.

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CCOCOR

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EVEIVE

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