Thesaurus / correctives
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synonyms for correctives
- aid
- alleviation
- antidote
- assistance
- catholicon
- corrective
- countermeasure
- drug
- elixir
- fix
- healing
- help
- medication
- medicine
- nostrum
- panacea
- physic
- placebo
- proprietary
- recovery
- redress
- remedy
- reparation
- therapeutic
- treatment
- counteractant
- counteragent
- elixir vitae
- healing agent
- medicant
- pharmacon
- quick fix
- restora-tive
- aid
- assistance
- drug
- medicine
- placebo
- remedy
- treatment
- alleviation
- antidote
- catholicon
- corrective
- countermeasure
- elixir
- fix
- healing
- help
- medicament
- nostrum
- panacea
- physic
- proprietary
- recovery
- redress
- reparation
- therapeutic
- counteractant
- counteragent
- elixir vitae
- healing agent
- medicant
- pharmacon
- quick fix
- restora-tive
- aid
- alleviation
- antidote
- assistance
- catholicon
- corrective
- countermeasure
- drug
- elixir
- fix
- healing
- help
- medicament
- medication
- medicine
- nostrum
- panacea
- placebo
- proprietary
- recovery
- redress
- remedy
- reparation
- therapeutic
- treatment
- counteractant
- counteragent
- elixir vitae
- healing agent
- medicant
- pharmacon
- quick fix
- restora-tive
- antidote
- drug
- elixir
- fix
- healing
- medication
- medicine
- panacea
- placebo
- quick fix
- recovery
- remedy
- treatment
- aid
- alleviation
- assistance
- catholicon
- corrective
- countermeasure
- help
- medicament
- nostrum
- physic
- proprietary
- redress
- reparation
- therapeutic
- counteractant
- counteragent
- elixir vitae
- healing agent
- medicant
- pharmacon
- restora-tive
- corrective
- countermeasure
- cure
- remedy
- antitoxin
- antivenin
- medicine
- nullifier
- preventive
- counteractant
- counteragent
- counterstep
- negator
- neutralizer
- advice
- aid
- benefit
- comfort
- cooperation
- guidance
- hand
- service
- support
- use
- assist
- avail
- balm
- corrective
- cure
- lift
- maintenance
- nourishment
- remedy
- succor
- sustenance
- utility
- helping hand
- blockage
- encumbrance
- handicap
- hindrance
- hurt
- injury
- obstruction
- prevention
- disease
- check
- counteraction
- harm
- management
- ownership
- stop
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How to use correctives in a sentence
Kropotkins Mutual Aid is worth noting here as one of the earliest correctives to these popular misconceptions of Darwinism.
THE OUTLINE OF HISTORY: BEING A PLAIN HISTORY OF LIFE AND MANKINDHERBERT GEORGE WELLSIf genius is liable to such one-sidedness, the greater the need of educational correctives to common-place minds.
CHAMBERS'S EDINBURGH JOURNAL, NO. 451VARIOUSPrinting has accelerated the progress of equality, and it is also one of its best correctives.
DEMOCRACY IN AMERICA, VOLUME 2 (OF 2)ALEXIS DE TOQUEVILLEAll the former correctives, whether of virtue or of weakness, which existed in the old monarchy, are gone.
POLITICAL PAMPHLETSGEORGE SAINTSBURYThey have rendered the application of all correctives and remedies to abuse, at best, precarious in their operation.
THE WORKS OF THE RIGHT HONOURABLE EDMUND BURKE, VOL. IX. (OF 12)EDMUND BURKEIn being correctives to the disturbances of functioning they become correctives to the disturbing factors themselves.
THE SCIENCE AND PHILOSOPHY OF THE ORGANISMHANS DRIESCHNor are correctives lacking for the abuses which may enter in through an overdevelopment of self-interest.
CREATING CAPITALFREDERICK L. LIPMANThe common jail is made the place of confinement, while the whipping-post and starvation supply the correctives.
MANUEL PEREIRAF. C. ADAMSThese orders are undoubtedly some correctives to the abuses which may arise in this very critical article of public dealing.
THE WORKS OF THE RIGHT HONOURABLE EDMUND BURKE, VOL. VIII. (OF 12)EDMUND BURKEHow, otherwise, could they stand a long unbroken course of free living, with such infinitesimal correctives of exercise?
BORDER AND BASTILLEGEORGE A. LAWRENCE