curative

English

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈkjʊɹ.ə.tɪv/

Etymology 1

From Middle French curatif.

Adjective

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

Translations

possessing the ability to cure

• Bashkir: шифалы (şifalı), дарыу (darıw)
• Bulgarian: лечебен (bg) (lečeben)
• Catalan: curatiu
• Dutch: curatief (nl)
• Faroese: lekjandi
• Finnish: parantava (fi)
• French: curatif (fr)
• German: heilend (de), heilkräftig
• Hungarian: gyógyító (hu), gyógyhatású (hu), gyógy- (hu)
• Indonesian: kuratif (id)
• Italian: curativo (it)
• Maori: whakaoraora
• Portuguese: curativo (pt)
• Sanskrit: भेषज (sa) (bheṣaja)
• Spanish: curativo
• Welsh: iachusol (cy)

See also

• therapeutic
• remedial

Noun

curative (plural curatives)

1. A substance that acts as a cure.

Etymology 2

Adjective

curative (not comparable)

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

   Hypernym: causative

Usage notes

• Curative verbs are common in Uralic languages.

Translations

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

• Finnish: kuratiivinen

Further reading

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

French

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ky.ʁa.tiv/

• Audio

  (file)

• Homophone: curatives

Adjective

curative

1. feminine singular of curatif

Italian

Pronunciation

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

Adjective

curative

1. feminine plural of curativo

Anagrams

• curatevi, curviate, ricevuta