Meaning

2 senses
  1. Something that corrects or counteracts something.

    alkalies are correctives of acids

    penalties are correctives of immoral conduct

  2. (obsolete)Limitation; restriction.

More definitions
  • a device for treating injury or disease

Examples

6 sentences
  1. I need corrective lenses.

    Мені потрібні коригуючі лінзи. — deniko

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  2. Almost all patients require corrective eyewear after cataract surgery.

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  3. Tom sent me a corrective response, highlighting several grammatical mistakes in my message.

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  4. We must apply corrective measures.

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  5. You'd be surprised what strengthening your core and doing postural corrective exercises can do for your body.

Origin

Borrowed from French correctif, equivalent to correct + -ive.

Borrowed from French correctif, equivalent to correct + -ive.

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Forms

plural: correctives
Singularcorrective
Pluralcorrectives

regular

Synonyms

1 synonyms
Close in meaning

See also

neighbours in the dictionary
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