corrective
/kəˈɹɛktɪv/
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Australia/kəˈɹektɪv/
corrective adjective: of or pertaining to correction; serving to correct.
Adjective
corrective (not comparable)
- Of or pertaining to correction; serving to correct.
- As the currents were changing rapidly, the captain had to make many corrective course changes.
- Since the accident I've had to wear a corrective brace.
- Qualifying; limiting.
- The Psalmist interposeth a caution in this corrective particle, Yea, Happy. It hath the force of a revocation, whereby he seems to retract what went before, not simply and absolutely, but in a certain degree […]1642, Richard Holdsworth, A Sermon Preached in St. Maries in Cambridge, Cambridge, page 27
Noun
corrective (plural correctives)
- Something that corrects or counteracts something.
- alkalies are correctives of acids
- penalties are correctives of immoral conduct
- Limitation; restriction.
- What Correctives there may be supposed that may check and restrain that Increase of Mankind, that otherwise according to the ordinary course of Nature would have obtained in the World.1677, Matthew Hale, chapter 7, in The Primitive Origination of Mankind, London: William Shrowsbery, page 203
- It is a maxim established upon good reason, that every thing exceeding its just bounds, is hurtful to nature. The best of things are not excepted in this general rule. Even the necessary supports of life, if not qualified and made wholesome by this corrective, may prove the procurers of death.c. 1780, John Trusler, “Some observations upon drunkenness”, in An Easy Way to Prolong Life, London, page 28
corrective meaning in Hindi, Tamil, Marathi and Urdu
corrective in Hindi
- सुधारात्मक
corrective in Tamil
- சீர்திருத்துகிற, திருத்தமான
corrective in Marathi
- सुधारात्मक
corrective in Urdu
- corrective
- اصلاح کن islāh kun
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- corrective in Bengali
- সংশোধনমূলক
- corrective in Malayalam
- തെറ്റു തിരുത്തുന്ന, തെറ്റുതിരുത്താൻ പര്യാപ്തമായ, തിരുത്താൻ പോന്ന, പിഴവുതിരുത്തൽ നടത്തുന്ന
- corrective in Punjabi
- ਸੁਧਾਰਾਤਮਕ
- corrective in Gujarati
- સુધારાત્મક, સુધારણાત્મક
- corrective in Odia
- ସୁଧାରାତ୍ମକ
- corrective in Sanskrit
- शोधक śodhaka
- corrective in Nepali
- सुधारात्मक
- corrective in Indonesian
- korektif
Examples of corrective in a sentence
- In the finished pieces of his youth, when he [John Milton] had a critical eye at every hour on every page, we find no want of corrective touches.1795, Isaac D’Israeli, chapter 3, in An Essay on the Manners and Genius of Literary Character, London: T. Cadell, Junr. and W. Davies, page...
- If one had to choose among Wells’s own contemporaries a writer who could stand towards him as a corrective, one might choose Kipling, who was not deaf to the evil voices of power and military “glory.”1941, George Orwell, “Wells, Hitler and the World State”, in Dickens, Dali and Others, New York: Harcourt, Brace & World, published 1946...
Forms of corrective
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Origin of corrective
Borrowed from French correctif, equivalent to correct + -ive.
Words formed from corrective
Phrases with corrective
Words that rhyme with corrective
- projective
- subjective
- effective
- objective
- prospective
- reflective
- collective
- connective
- defective
- directive
- respective
- selective
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- injective
- detective
- elective
- irrespective
- perfective
- retrospective
- affective
- bijective
- erective
- ineffective
- inflective
- intellective
- intersubjective
- protective
- refective
- advective
- convective
- deflective
- ejective
- imperfective
- infective
- inspective
- introspective
- overprotective
- rejective
- surjective
- unreflective
- unselective
Questions about corrective
- What does corrective mean?
- Corrective means of or pertaining to correction; serving to correct.
- What is corrective in Hindi?
- Corrective in Hindi is सुधारात्मक. See Corrective meaning in Hindi.
- How do you use corrective in a sentence?
- In the finished pieces of his youth, when he [John Milton] had a critical eye at every hour on every page, we find no want of corrective touches.
- What part of speech is corrective?
- Corrective can be an adjective or a noun.
- How do you pronounce corrective?
- Corrective is pronounced /kəˈɹɛktɪv/ (UK).
Words near corrective in the dictionary
Source and license
Adapted from Wiktionary: corrective (page history and authors); corrective (Hindi, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license); corrective (Tamil Wiktionary) (page history and authors); corrective (Marathi, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license); اصلاح کن (Urdu) (page history and authors); corrective (Bengali, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license); corrective (Olam, E.K. Kurup corpus) (dataset and license); corrective (Punjabi, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license); corrective (Gujarati, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license); corrective (Odia, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license); शोधक (Sanskrit) (page history and authors); corrective (Nepali, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.
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