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Wordnet 3.0

NOUN (1)

1. a medicine or therapy that cures disease or relieve pain;
[syn: remedy, curative, cure, therapeutic]


ADJECTIVE (1)

1. tending to cure or restore to health;
- Example: "curative powers of herbal remedies"
- Example: "her gentle healing hand"
- Example: "remedial surgery"
- Example: "a sanative environment of mountains and fresh air"
- Example: "a therapeutic agent"
- Example: "therapeutic diets"
[syn: curative, healing(p), alterative, remedial, sanative, therapeutic]



The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48:

Curative \Cur"a*tive\ (k?r"?-t?v), a. [Cf. F.curatif. See
   Cure, v. t.]
   Relating to, or employed in, the cure of diseases; tending to
   cure. --Arbuthnot.
   [1913 Webster]


WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006):

curative
    adj 1: 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]
    n 1: a medicine or therapy that cures disease or relieve pain
         [syn: remedy, curative, cure, therapeutic]


Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0:

27 Moby Thesaurus words for "curative":
   adjuvant, alterative, analeptic, beneficial, corrective, curing,
   healing, helpful, iatric, invigorating, medicable, medicative,
   medicinal, remedial, reparative, reparatory, restitutive,
   restitutory, restorative, salutary, sanative, sanatory,
   therapeutic, theriac, tonic, vulnerary, wholesome