curative

• IPA^(key): /ˈkjʊɹ.ə.tɪv/

• Audio (Southern England):

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Borrowed from Middle French curatif.

curative (comparative more curative, superlative most curative)

1. Possessing the ability to cure, to heal or treat illness.

   The curative power of the antibiotics introduced in the 1950s was amazing at the time.

   • 1996, Macy Nulman, The Encyclopedia of Jewish Prayer, page 384:

     Making this request is not considered a curative measure but only for preventive purposes, as the Rambam rights, "A healthy man may read scriptural passages and psalms in order to merit of this reading and be with him and protect him from danger and hurtful influences."

   • 2022, Lindsey Fitzharris, The Facemaker, page 41:

     He was just as interested in preventive care as he was in curative measures.

2. (figurative, by extension) Remediative.

   a curative jury instruction to disregard the sheriff's testimony

• therapeutic
• remedial

curative (plural curatives)

1. A substance that acts as a cure.

curative (not comparable)

1. (grammar) of a verb, conveying the meaning "the agent makes a patient do something"

   Hypernym: causative

• Curative verbs are common in Uralic languages.

• 2011 article by Geda Paulsen in Linguistica Uralica, available online in The Free Library [1]

• IPA^(key): /ky.ʁa.tiv/

• Audio (France (Vosges)):

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• Homophone: curatives

curative

1. feminine singular of curatif

• IPA^(key): /ku.raˈti.ve/
• Rhymes: -ive
• Hyphenation: cu‧ra‧tì‧ve

curative

1. feminine plural of curativo

• curatevi, curviate, ricevuta