ZebraWords.com - The Definition of 'Remedial', Synonyms of 'Remedial' & More on 'Remedial'

1. Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0

adjuvant, aidful, alleviating, alleviative, alterative, analeptic, analgesic, anesthetic, anodyne, assuasive, balmy, balsamic, beneficial, benumbing, cathartic, cleansing, conducive, constructive, contributory, corrective, curative, curing, deadening, demulcent, dulling, easing, emollient, furthersome, good for, healing, helpful, iatric, lenitive, medicative, medicinal, mitigating, mitigative, numbing, pain-killing, palliative, positive, profitable, purgative, relieving, reparative, reparatory, restitutive, restitutory, restorative, salutary, sanative, sanatory, serviceable, softening, soothing, subduing, therapeutic, theriac, useful, vulnerary, wholesome

Dictionary Results for remedial:

1. WordNet® 3.0 (2006)

remedial
    adj 1: tending or intended to rectify or improve; "a remedial
           reading course"; "remedial education"
    2: tending to cure or restore to health; "curative powers of
       herbal remedies"; "her gentle healing hand"; "remedial
       surgery"; "a sanative environment of mountains and fresh
       air"; "a therapeutic agent"; "therapeutic diets" [syn:
       curative, healing(p), alterative, remedial,
       sanative, therapeutic]

2. The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48

Remedial \Re*me"di*al\ (-al), a. [L. remedialis.]
   Affording a remedy; intended for a remedy, or for the removal
   or abatement of an evil; as, remedial treatment.
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         Statutes are declaratory or remedial.    --Blackstone.
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         It is an evil not compensated by any beneficial result;
         it is not remedial, not conservative.    --I. Taylor.
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3. Bouvier's Law Dictionary, Revised 6th Ed (1856)

REMEDIAL. That which affords a remedy; as, a remedial statute, or one which 
is made to supply some defects or abridge some superfluities of the common 
law. 1 131. Com. 86. The term remedial statute is also applied to those acts 
which give a new remedy. Esp. Pen. Act. 1.

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