Antonyms for corrective
kəˈrɛk tɪvcor·rec·tive

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1. corrective

   Antonyms:
   confirmative, conducive, provocative, stimulative, intensitive

   Synonyms:
   regulative, alterative, preventative, restorative

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1. corrective, restorativeadjective

   a device for treating injury or disease

   Antonyms:
   indulgent, worsening

   Synonyms:
   restorative, tonic

2. corrective, disciplinary, disciplinaladjective

   designed to promote discipline

   "the teacher's action was corrective rather than instructional"; "disciplinal measures"; "the mother was stern and disciplinary"

   Antonyms:
   worsening, indulgent

   Synonyms:
   disciplinary, disciplinal

3. correctiveadjective

   tending or intended to correct or counteract or restore to a normal condition

   "corrective measures"; "corrective lenses"

   Antonyms:
   worsening, indulgent

   Synonyms:
   disciplinary, disciplinal

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1. correctiveadjective

   Synonyms:
   rectifying, reformatory, correctory, disciplinary emendatory

Concise Medical Dictionary, by Joseph C Segen, MDRate these synonyms:0.0 / 0 votes

1. corrective

   Synonyms:
   Corrigent, see there
   

How to use corrective in a sentence?

1. Andrew Meehan:

   This display of hate and cowardice does not represent the dedicated hardworking men and women of the Department of Homeland Security, it has no place in an organization that works tirelessly to protect the American people and combat hate in all its forms. The situation was immediately referred to the Office of the Inspector General and is currently being investigating to ensure that swift and corrective action is taken.

2. Ian Kerner:

   In a time when men are bombarded with ads for bogus penis enhancers and images of porn star penises, it's refreshing to see a scientific study assert penile dimensions that are refreshingly normal, in the world of porn, even penises that meet the baseline for normal are often tagged as small, so hopefully men who worry about their size will get this corrective message.

3. Justin Oakes:

   Raytheon has filed two separate motions with the Court of Federal Claims ... We are continuing to move forward with our overall corrective action plan while we wait for the court to rule on the motions.

4. Arturo Merino Núñez:

   At this stage all possible hypotheses are going to be studied with an open mind, we are all pilots and want to know what happened to the aircraft to take corrective measures, if there were any to take. That is also very distressing for us because we have to continue operating the plane, Antarctic campaigns have to continue.

5. Emmanuel Macron:

   I'll spell out where we're at, that we're piling too much dough into a welfare system that's focused on corrective treatment.

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