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rehabilitative

rehabilitative adjective: tending to rehabilitate.

Adjective

rehabilitative (comparative more rehabilitative, superlative most rehabilitative)

  1. Tending to rehabilitate.
  2. For the purpose of rehabilitation.
    • The broken windows theory by no means advocates the more rehabilitative or psychotherapeutic remedies that characterize certain of the institutions described in Discipline and Punish.2001, Bernard E. Harcourt, chapter 5, in Illusion of Order

Forms of rehabilitative

comparativemore rehabilitative
superlativemost rehabilitative

Origin of rehabilitative

From rehabilitate + -ive.

Words formed from rehabilitative

Questions about rehabilitative

What does rehabilitative mean?
Rehabilitative means tending to rehabilitate.
What part of speech is rehabilitative?
Rehabilitative is an adjective.

Words near rehabilitative in the dictionary

  1. rehabilitational
  2. rehabilitationism
  3. rehabilitationist
  4. rehabilitationists
  5. rehabilitations
  6. rehabilitative
  7. rehabilitatively
  8. rehabilitativeness
  9. rehabilitator
  10. rehabilitators
  11. rehabilitee

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