remedy

1. 1.

   act of correcting an error or a fault or an evil

   Synonymsredressremediation

   Broadercorrection

   Narrowersalve
2. 2.

   a medicine or therapy that cures disease or relieve pain

   Synonymscurativecuretherapeutic

   Broadermedicine

   Narroweracousticantidoteemeticlenitivelotionmagic bulletointmentpalliativepanaceapreventive

   Part oftreatment

1. 1.

   set straight or right

   “remedy these deficiencies”

   “rectify the inequities in salaries”

   “repair an oversight”

   Synonymsrectifyremediaterepairamend

   Broadercorrect
2. 2.

   provide relief for

   “remedy his illness”

   Synonymsrelieve

   Broadertreat

   medicine

Other forms of remedy

plural

remedies·

past tense

remedied·

present participle

remedying·

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 remedy

What does remedy mean?

remedy means "act of correcting an error or a fault or an evil". That is the primary sense; the word has 4 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in remedy?

remedy has 3 syllables: rem-e-dy. The stress falls on "rem". In IPA it is /ˈɹɛmədi/.

What is another word for remedy?

Close synonyms include redress, remediation, curative, cure, therapeutic. 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 remedy a common word?

remedy is banded "Familiar" — widely understood, used when the subject calls for it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.