Meaning

2 senses
  1. Curative; providing a remedy

  2. Intended to remediate (i.e., correct or improve) deficient skills in some subject

    Nachhilfe-, -nachhilfe

    tending or intended to rectify or improve

Examples

6 sentences
  1. She has to take a remedial course in English.

    deSie muss einen Angleichungskurs in Englisch belegen.

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  2. Santiago needs to join a remedial class.

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  3. Yanni spent the rest of the year in remedial classes.

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  4. She failed the math test, so she had to take a remedial class.

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  5. I'm taking remedial English classes, and they expect me to know what "asynchronous" means.

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Translations

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Deutsch
By meaning 1
intended to correct or improve deficient skills:

Origin

From Latin remediālis. By surface analysis, remedy + -al.

From Latin remediālis. By surface analysis, remedy + -al.

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Forms

more remedial, most remedial
Comparativemore remedial Lesson
Superlativemost remedial Lesson

regular

Synonyms

5 synonyms
Close in meaning

Word family

9 related words

See also

neighbours in the dictionary
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