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medicative

medicative adjective: medicinal; acting like a medicine.

Adjective

medicative (comparative more medicative, superlative most medicative)

  1. Medicinal; acting like a medicine.

Forms of medicative

comparativemore medicative
superlativemost medicative

Origin of medicative

From medicate + -ive.

Words formed from medicative

  • self-medicative

Questions about medicative

What does medicative mean?
Medicative means medicinal; acting like a medicine.
What part of speech is medicative?
Medicative is an adjective.

Words near medicative in the dictionary

  1. medication assisted treatment
  2. medication assisted treatments
  3. medication-assisted treatment
  4. medicational
  5. medications
  6. medicative
  7. medicator
  8. medicators
  9. medicatory
  10. Medicean
  11. medicerebellar

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