Definitions for curative

curative cur·a·tive

Spelling: [kyoo r-uh-tiv]
IPA: /ˈkyʊər ə tɪv/

Curative is a 8 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 13 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 16 points.

You can make 316 anagrams from letters in curative (aceirtuv).

Definitions for curative

noun

  1. a curative agent; remedy.

adjective

  1. serving to cure or heal; pertaining to curing or remedial treatment; remedial.

Origin of curative

1375-1425; late Middle English Middle French curatif Medieval Latin cūrātīvus, equivalent to Late Latin cūrāt(us) (past participle of curāre to care for, attend to; see c

Examples for curative

And if it did promote perspiration, one can well believe that it might be curative.

Nobel Prize winner Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn credited kombucha with curative properties in his novel The Cancer Ward.

The envoy's description of Francis's curative power is interesting.

But in all cases, the appropriate course of antibiotics has been curative.

Nora could arm and disarm within a sentence, could wield a barb and its curative salve within a phrase.

The psychological work of the physician does not begin with his curative efforts.

Since the liver regenerates, “that can be curative—or at least it can let patients do a lot better.”

And yet if I suffer it can only be with what I may call a curative suffering.

The curative effect on bodily disabilities is thus often an illusory one.

For thousands of years men and women in many cultures have used cannabis as a curative and a source of fiber and oil.

Word Value for curative
Scrable

13

Words with friends

16

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