Antonyms for cathartic
kəˈθɑr tɪkcathar·tic

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1. purgative, cathartic, physic, aperientadjective

   a purging medicine; stimulates evacuation of the bowels

   Antonyms:
   unhealthful, unemotional, costive

   Synonyms:
   physic, purgative, aperient

2. cathartic, psychotherapeuticadjective

   emotionally purging

   Antonyms:
   unemotional, costive, unhealthful

   Synonyms:
   evacuant, purgative, releasing, psychotherapeutic

3. cathartic, releasingadjective

   emotionally purging (of e.g. art)

   Antonyms:
   unhealthful, unemotional, costive

   Synonyms:
   evacuant, purgative, releasing, psychotherapeutic

4. cathartic, evacuant, purgativeadjective

   strongly laxative

   Antonyms:
   costive, unemotional, unhealthful

   Synonyms:
   evacuant, purgative, releasing, psychotherapeutic

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1. catharticnoun

   Synonyms:
   purgative, physic, purge, evacuant

How to use cathartic in a sentence?

1. Harvey Rickles:

   We felt that it provided a lot of relief. It gave us an opportunity to see her and have contact with her and share our thoughts with her, it was cathartic.

2. Rooma Mehra:

   All great creativity is cathartic..hence original..

3. Sam Rounseville:

   His story is a 76-year-old story of two things. One is fighting PTSD. He had it in the worst way. And the other thing is survivor's guilt. And those two things have shadowed him throughout his life, it is very cathartic for him.

4. Aldous Huxley:

   Abused as we abuse it at present, dramatic art is in no sense cathartic it is merely a form of emotional masturbation. It is the rarest thing to find a player who has not had his character affected for the worse by the practice of his profession. Nobody can make a habit of self-exhibition, nobody can exploit his personality for the sake of exercising a kind of hypnotic power over others, and remain untouched by the process.

5. Rooma Mehra:

   All great creativity is cathartic.. hence original...

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