medicative

[med-i-key-tiv] / ˈmɛd ɪˌkeɪ tɪv /

ADJECTIVE

curative

Synonyms

STRONGEST

corrective healthful invigorating medicinal remedial salutary therapeutic

STRONG

curing pick-me-up restorative tonic

WEAK

alleviative beneficial helpful medicable remedying sanative shot in the arm vulnerary what the doctor ordered wholesome

Antonyms

STRONGEST

damaging harmful hurtful injurious

WEAK

hurting painful

ADJECTIVE

medical

Synonyms

STRONGEST

aesculapian

STRONG

medicolegal

WEAK

iatric pathological

ADJECTIVE

medicinal

Synonyms

WEAK

aesculapian curing healing medical pharmaceutic remedial salutary therapeutic

Example Sentences

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The effort of Nature, exerting her medicative force to cast out foreign impediments, and once more become One, become whole?

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Adjective expresses ideas, simple, abstract, general and medicative; it is an abstraction in the substantive.

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