| Main Entry: | |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | healing |
| Synonyms: | ameliorative, analeptic, beneficial, corrective, curative, good, remedial, restorative, salubrious, salutary, sanative |
| Antonyms: | damaging, harmful, hurtful, injurious, untherapeutic |
| 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: | 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 |
| 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: | medical |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | healing |
| Synonyms: | alleviating, cathartic, curative, disinfectant, medicating, medicinal, narcotic, pathological, peptic, pharmaceutical, preventive, prophylactic, restorative, salutary, sedative, therapeutic, tonic |
| 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: | medicinal |
| Synonyms: | antidotal, corrective, curative, healthful, recuperative, remedial, therapeutic |