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corrective
[ kuh-rek-tiv ]
noun
- a means of correcting; corrective agent.
corrective
/ əˈɛɪ /
adjective
- tending or intended to correct
noun
- something that tends or is intended to correct
Derived Forms
- ǰˈپ, adverb
Other Word Forms
- ǰ·t· adverb
- ԴDzcǰ·t adjective noun
- nonǰ·t· adverb
- ܲcǰ·t adjective
Word History and Origins
Origin of corrective1
Example Sentences
His grand denouement is meant to be a catharsis for a deliberately corrective slice of emotional history.
I remind myself of this sage corrective, because like playwright Keiko Green, author of the new comedy “You Are Cordially Invited to the End of the World!”
In addition to needing glasses or corrective lenses, people with myopia are at a higher risk of experiencing a detached retina if the retina has to stretch too far to accommodate the elongating eye.
In an era of strongmen, those lessons were a necessary corrective to the corrosive words and actions from Trump and others.
But back then, I didn’t feel the need to read Joyce as a sociological corrective.
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