medicative

1. 1.

   having the properties of medicine

   “medicative drugs”

   “medicinal herbs”

   “medicinal properties”

   Synonymsmedicinal

   Similarhealthful

Questions about medicative

What does medicative mean?

medicative means "having the properties of medicine".

How many syllables are in medicative?

medicative has 4 syllables: me-di-ca-tive. The stress falls on "di".

What is another word for medicative?

Close synonyms include medicinal. 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 medicative a common word?

medicative is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.