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.
Wiktionary
Synonyms:
- disciplinal
- disciplinary
- reformistic
- reformational
- penological
- melioristic
- inflictive
- gradualistic
- revisory
- salutary
- rectifying
- disciplinaryemendatory
- correctory
- remedy
- reformatory
noun
correctives
An agent that corrects.
American Heritage
Something corrective; remedy.
Webster's New World
Other Word Forms of Corrective
Noun
Singular:
corrective
Plural:
correctivesOrigin of Corrective
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From French correctif
From Wiktionary
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