Word.ws English Dictionary

correctives

US/kəˈɹɛktɪvz/

correctives is the plural of corrective.

Meaning of corrective

Noun

corrective (plural correctives)

  1. Something that corrects or counteracts something.
    • alkalies are correctives of acids
  2. (obsolete) 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

See all 4 meanings of corrective

Words that rhyme with correctives

Questions about correctives

What is correctives the plural of?
Correctives is the plural of corrective.
How do you pronounce correctives?
Correctives is pronounced /kəˈɹɛktɪvz/ (US).

Words near correctives in the dictionary

  1. corrective rape
  2. corrective rapes
  3. corrective shoe
  4. correctively
  5. correctiveness
  6. correctives
  7. correctly
  8. correctness
  9. correctnesses
  10. correctomundo
  11. corrector

Source and license

Adapted from Wiktionary: correctives (page history and authors); corrective (page history and authors). 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.

Last updated:

Cite this entry: “correctives.” Word.ws, https://word.ws/correctives. Based on Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.