curative

[kyoor-uh-tiv] / ˈkyʊər ə tɪv /

ADJECTIVE

healing, health-giving

Synonyms

STRONGEST

corrective healthful invigorating medicinal remedial salutary therapeutic

STRONG

curing pick-me-up restorative tonic

WEAK

alleviative beneficial helpful medicable medicative remedying sanative shot in the arm vulnerary what the doctor ordered wholesome

Antonyms

STRONGEST

damaging harmful hurtful injurious

WEAK

hurting painful

Example Sentences

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Watt Smith’s “Bad Friend” proved a much-needed curative.

From Los Angeles Times • May 7, 2025

Treatments are available for only a handful of hereditary diseases, and curative therapies are even more rare.

From Science Daily • Apr. 4, 2024

But the specific pathways by which the virus does so are still being elucidated, and curative treatments are nonexistent.

From Salon • Mar. 12, 2024

Indeed, patients give up curative treatments and many medicines.

From Seattle Times • Feb. 17, 2024

Mom was big on the curative powers of sleep.

From "Found" by Margaret Peterson Haddix