corrective

1. 1.

   a device for treating injury or disease

   Synonymsrestorative

   Broaderdevice

   Narrowerpackpickupprosthesis

Other forms of corrective

plural

correctives·

Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.

Questions about corrective

What does corrective mean?

corrective means "designed to promote discipline". That is the primary sense; the word has 3 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in corrective?

corrective has 3 syllables: cor-rec-tive. The stress falls on "rec". In IPA it is /kɚˈɛktɪv/.

What is another word for corrective?

Close synonyms include disciplinary, disciplinal, restorative. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is corrective a common word?

corrective is banded "Uncommon" — turns up in careful writing rather than conversation. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.

What rhymes with corrective?

1 word rhymes with corrective. Rhymes are matched on the phonemes from the last stressed vowel onward, which is the definition a reader has in their head.