Definition of Remedial

1. Adjective. Tending or intended to rectify or improve. "Remedial education"

Similar to: Bettering
Derivative terms: Remedy

2. Adjective. Tending to cure or restore to health. "Therapeutic diets"
Exact synonyms: Alterative, Curative, Healing, Sanative, Therapeutic
Similar to: Healthful
Derivative terms: Cure, Remedy

Definition of Remedial

1. a. Affording a remedy; intended for a remedy, or for the removal or abatement of an evil; as, remedial treatment.

Definition of Remedial

1. Adjective. curative; providing a remedy ¹

2. Adjective. intended to correct or improve deficient skills in some subject ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Definition of Remedial

1. intended to correct something [adj]

Medical Definition of Remedial

1. Curative or acting as a remedy. (05 Mar 2000)

Lexicographical Neighbors of Remedial

remeaning
remeans
remeasure
remeasured
remeasurement
remeasurements
remeasures
remeasuring
remeber
remede
remeded
remedes
remediabilities
remediability
remediable
remedial (current term)
remedial teaching
remedially
remediat
remediate
remediated
remediates
remediating
remediation
remediations
remediator
remediators
remedied
remedies
remediless

Literary usage of Remedial

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. Superfund And Mining Megasites: Lessons from the Coeur D'alene River Basin by National Research Council (U. S.) (2005)
"Final (Revision 2) remedial Investigation Report, remedial Investigation Report for the Coeur d'Alene Basin remedial Investigation/ Feasibility Study, Vol. ..."

2. Judicial and Statutory Definitions of Words and Phrases by West Publishing Company (1905)
"When Instituted for the purpose of punishing for disobedience to an injunction, a contempt proceeding is not remedial In its character, and is not a "remedy ..."

3. Commentaries on the Laws of England by William Blackstone, William Carey Jones (1915)
"Statutes also are either declaratory of the common law, or remedial of some defects ... remedial statutes are those which are made to supply such defects, ..."

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