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correctiveadjective serving to raise or adjust something to some standard or proper conditioneyeglasses are called corrective lenses by the department of motor vehicles amendatory, rectifying, remedial, remedying, reformative, reformatory curative, medicinal, therapeuticreparative, restorativebeneficial, helpful, salutary, wholesomeantidotal, counteractive, counterbalancing inflicting, involving, or serving as punishmenta corrective sentence of five years' hard labor castigating, chastening, chastising, correcting, correctional, disciplinary, disciplining, penal, penalizing, punitive retaliative, retaliatory, retributive, retributory, revengefulvengeful, wrathful nonpunitive compensatoryacquitting, exculpating, exculpatory, exonerating, vindicatingabsolving, condoning, pardoning, remittingcommuting, reprieving a force or influence that makes an opposing force ineffective or less effectivea substantial outflow of people proved to be the necessary corrective for the spiraling cost of housing balance, canceler(or canceller), counter, counteraction, counterbalance, counterforce, counterpoise, counterweight, equipoise, neutralizer, offset trade-offballast, weight something that corrects or counteracts something undesirablethe only corrective to bad behavior is good, firm discipline antidote, curative, cure, rectifier, remedy, therapeutic, therapy cure-all, elixir, panaceaanswer, solutionaid, help, relief, succorbalm, medicinal, medicine, palliative in 1531 |