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corrective

[ kuh-rek-tiv ]

adjective

  1. tending to correct or rectify; remedial:

    corrective exercises.



noun

  1. a means of correcting; corrective agent.

corrective

/ əˈɛɪ /

adjective

  1. tending or intended to correct
“Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged” 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012

noun

  1. something that tends or is intended to correct
“Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged” 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012
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Derived Forms

  • ǰˈ𳦳پ, adverb
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Other Word Forms

  • ǰ·t· adverb
  • ԴDzcǰ·t adjective noun
  • nonǰ·t· adverb
  • ܲcǰ·t adjective
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Word History and Origins

Origin of corrective1

1525–35; (< Anglo-French ) < Medieval Latin ǰŧīܲ. See correct, -ive
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Example Sentences

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His grand denouement is meant to be a catharsis for a deliberately corrective slice of emotional history.

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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!”

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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.

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In an era of strongmen, those lessons were a necessary corrective to the corrosive words and actions from Trump and others.

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But back then, I didn’t feel the need to read Joyce as a sociological corrective.

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