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| Main Entry: | |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | restorative |
| Synonyms: | curative, curing, invigorating, medicinal, mending, remedial |
| Notes: | healing is a process in which an organism's health is restored; curing is a method that promotes healing |
| Main Entry: | emollient |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | soothing |
| Synonyms: | balsamic, demulcent, healing, lenitive, palliative, relieving, remedial, softening |
| 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: | salutary |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | healthy |
| Synonyms: | aiding, beneficial, fit, good, healing, healthful, nourishing, nutritious, restorative, salubrious, sound, tonic, well, wholesome |
| Main Entry: | medical |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | pertainng to medicine |
| Synonyms: | aesculapian, corrective, curative, healing, iatric, iatrical, medicative, medicinal, therapeutic, therapeutical |
| Main Entry: | medicinal |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | curative |
| Synonyms: | aesculapian, curing, healing, medical, medicative, pharmaceutic, remedial, salutary, therapeutic |
| Main Entry: | medicinal |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | curative |
| Synonyms: | curing, healing, medical, medicative, remedial, restorative, therapeutic |
| Main Entry: | restorative |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | therapeutic |
| Synonyms: | analeptic, corrective, curable, healing, medicinal, remedial, tonic |
| Antonyms: | neglectful |
| Main Entry: | curing |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | helping cure |
| Synonyms: | healing, sanative |
| Notes: | healing is a process in which an organism's health is restored; curing is a method that promotes healing |
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