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curative

/ˈkjʊɹ.ə.tɪv/

curative adjective: possessing the ability to cure, to heal or treat illness.

Adjective (1)

curative (comparative more curative, superlative most curative)

  1. Possessing the ability to cure, to heal or treat illness.
    • The curative power of the antibiotics introduced in the 1950s was amazing at the time.
    • Making this request is not considered a curative measure but only for preventive purposes, as the Rambam rights, "A healthy man may read scriptural passages and psalms in order to merit of this reading and be with him and protect him from danger and hurtful influences."1996, Macy Nulman, The Encyclopedia of Jewish Prayer, page 384
  2. (broadly, figuratively) Remediative.
    • a curative jury instruction to disregard the sheriff's testimony

Noun

curative (plural curatives)

  1. A substance that acts as a cure.

Adjective (2)

curative (not comparable)

  1. of a verb, conveying the meaning "the agent makes a patient do something"

curative meaning in Tamil, Urdu, Malayalam and Kannada

curative in Tamil

தீர்ப்பு, நலமூட்டும், நோய் நீக்கும், நோய் குணப்படுத்தும் இயல்புடைய, நிவாரணமான

curative in Urdu

علاجی, شفائی

curative in Malayalam

therapeutic, healing, medicinal
രോഗശമനത്തെ സംബന്ധിക്കുന്ന, ചികിത്സയെ സംബന്ധിക്കുന്ന, വെെദ്യ, ഭേഷജ, ഭേഷജ്യ, മരുന്നിനുള്ള

curative in Kannada

ಮದ್ದು
More languagesFewer languages
curative in Sanskrit
भेषज bheṣaja
curative in Indonesian
kuratif

Examples of curative in a sentence

  • Curative treatment of CC, possible in nearly 80 % of cases, is based on carcinologic surgical resection.
  • The state was expounded to be “amenable to a curative therapeutic strategy” and “amenable to localized therapy”.
  • Time was when this Bethesda too was curative, a sweet oasis in a parched and driven city.

All 10 example sentences with curative

Forms of curative

Adjective
comparativemore curative
superlativemost curative
Noun
pluralcuratives

Origin of curative

Borrowed from Middle French curatif.

Words formed from curative

Questions about curative

What does curative mean?
Curative means possessing the ability to cure, to heal or treat illness.
What is curative in Tamil?
Curative in Tamil is தீர்ப்பு, நலமூட்டும், நோய் நீக்கும். See Curative meaning in Tamil.
What part of speech is curative?
Curative can be an adjective or a noun.
How do you pronounce curative?
Curative is pronounced /ˈkjʊɹ.ə.tɪv/.

Words near curative in the dictionary

  1. curatical
  2. curating
  3. curation
  4. curational
  5. curations
  6. curative
  7. curatively
  8. curativeness
  9. curatives
  10. curativity
  11. curato

Source and license

Adapted from Wiktionary: curative (page history and authors); curative (Tamil Wiktionary) (page history and authors); curative (Urdu Wiktionary) (page history and authors); curative (Olam, E.K. Kurup corpus) (dataset and license); curative (Kannada Wiktionary) (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.

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