curative

1. 1.

   tending to cure or restore to health

   “curative powers of herbal remedies”

   “her gentle healing hand”

   “remedial surgery”

   “a sanative environment of mountains and fresh air”

   “a therapeutic agent”

   “therapeutic diets”

   Synonymshealingalterativeremedialsanativetherapeutic

   Similarhealthful

Other forms of curative

plural

curatives·

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 curative

What does curative mean?

curative means "a medicine or therapy that cures disease or relieve pain". That is the primary sense; the word has 2 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in curative?

curative has 3 syllables: cur-a-tive. The stress falls on "cur". In IPA it is /ˈkjʊɹətɪv/.

What is another word for curative?

Close synonyms include remedy, cure, therapeutic, healing, alterative. 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 curative a common word?

curative 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.