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. Todd Berry:

   We want to maintain the ability to recruit high school players, if we don’t have any corrective legislation, people aren’t going to do that. We’re trying to maintain high school recruitment and make sure universities hard hit by losses to the transfer portal are O.K.

2. Benjamin Weinthal:

   We expectUNRWAto review the allegations, investigate them, and if warranted, take disciplinary or other corrective actionin line with UN policies, up to and including termination of employment or contracts,andhold anyone found to have engaged in suchconduct accountable.

3. James Hollis:

   We should ask if there is another dimension to it (the striking coincidence) that would ask of me, what change of attitude and what insight I might draw from this, is there a task there that is corrective to my way of looking at things?

4. Eric Hogan:

   Corrective action has been taken with this employee.

5. Comptroller Thomas Curry:

   That was meant to flag the issue for the banks so they can take corrective action now on their own before going through any type of examination cycle.

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