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| Main Entry: | |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | healing, curing |
| Synonyms: | antidotal, counteracting, curative, disciplinary, palliative, penal, punitive, reformatory, rehabilitative, remedial, restorative, therapeutic |
| Antonyms: | harmful, hurtful, hurting, injurious, paining |
| Main Entry: | cosmetic |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | beautifying; relating to appearance |
| Synonyms: | corrective, gooky, improving, makeup, nonessential, painted, remedial, restorative, superficial, surface, touching-up |
| Antonyms: | disfiguring |
| Main Entry: | cultural |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | educational, enlightening |
| Synonyms: | adorning, advancing, artistic, beautifying, beneficial, broadening, civilizing, constructive, corrective, developmental, dignifying, disciplining, edifying, educative, elevating, ennobling, enriching, expanding, glorifying, helpful, humane, humanizing, influential, inspirational, instructive, learned, liberal, liberalizing, nurturing, ornamenting, polishing, promoting, raising, refined, refining, regenerative, socializing, stimulating, uplifting, widening |
| Main Entry: | curative |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | healing, health-giving |
| Synonyms: | alleviative, beneficial, corrective, curing, healthful, helpful, invigorating, medicable, medicative, medicinal, pick-me-up, remedial, remedying, restorative, salutary, sanative, shot in the arm, therapeutic, tonic, vulnerary, what the doctor ordered, wholesome |
| Antonyms: | harmful, hurting, injurious, painful |
| Main Entry: | cure |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | solution to problem, often health |
| Synonyms: | aid, alleviation, antidote, assistance, catholicon, corrective, counteractant, counteragent, countermeasure, drug, elixir, elixir vitae, fix, healing, healing agent, help, medicament, medicant, medication, medicine, nostrum, panacea, pharmacon, physic, placebo, proprietary, quick fix, recovery, redress, remedy, reparation, restora-tive, therapeutic, treatment |
| Antonyms: | disease, problem |
| Main Entry: | healthful/healthy |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | good for one's wellness |
| Synonyms: | advantageous, aiding, aseptic, beneficial, benign, body-building, bracing, cathartic, clean, compensatory, conducive, corrective, desirable, disease-free, energy-giving, fresh, harmless, healing, health-giving, helpful, hygienic, innocuous, invigorating, mitigative, nourishing, nutritious, nutritive, profitable, pure, restorative, salubrious, salutary, sanatory, sanitary, stimulating, sustaining, tonic, unadulterated, unpolluted, untainted, useful, wholesome |
| Antonyms: | bad, corrupt, diseased, noxious, rotten, sickening, unhealthful, unhealthy |
| Main Entry: | help |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | assistance, relief |
| Synonyms: | advice, aid, assist, avail, balm, benefit, comfort, cooperation, corrective, cure, guidance, hand, helping hand, lift*, maintenance, nourishment, remedy, service, succor, support, sustenance, use, utility |
| Antonyms: | blockage, check, counteraction, harm, hindrance, hurt, injury, obstruction, stop |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | penal |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | disciplinary |
| Synonyms: | chastening, corrective, penalizing, punishing, punitive, punitory, reformatory, retributive |
| Notes: | penal means 'relating to punishment' while punitive means 'serving to punish' |
| Main Entry: | remedial |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | healing, restorative |
| Synonyms: | alleviative, antidotal, antiseptic, corrective, curative, curing, health-giving, healthful, invigorating, medicating, medicinal, purifying, recuperative, reformative, remedying, repairing, restitutive, sanative, sanatory, solving, soothing, therapeutic, tonic, treating, vulnerary, wholesome |
| Notes: | remediable means capable of relieving pain, curing disease, or correcting a disorder; remedial means tending or intended to rectify or improve |
| Antonyms: | damaging, harmful, hurtful, injurious |
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