Curative

Definition: Curative

Curative

Adjective

1. Tending to cure or restore to health; "curative powers of herbal remedies"; "her gentle healing hand"; "remedial surgery"; "a sanative environment of mountains and fresh air"; "a therapeutic agent"; "therapeutic diets".

Noun

1. A medicine or therapy that cures disease or relieve pain.

Date "curative" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1258. (references)

Domain	Definition
Health	Tending to overcome disease and promote recovery. (references)
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Synonyms: Curative

Synonyms: alterative (adj), healing(p) (adj), remedial (adj), sanative (adj), therapeutic (adj), cure (n), remedy (n). (additional references)

Context	Synonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus).
Relief	Adjective: relieving; Verb: consolatory, soothing; assuaging, assuasive; balmy, balsamic; lenitive, palliative; anodyne; (remedial); curative.
Restoration	Restoring; Verb: restorative, recuperative; sanative, reparative, sanatory, reparatory; curative, remedial.
Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus.

Crosswords: Curative

English words defined with "curative": Bowssen ♦ Ground hele ♦ Sanatory. (references)

Etymologies containing "curative": Bowssen. (references)

Domain	Title
Books	Curative Factors in Dynamic Psychotherapy (The Master Work Series) (reference) CURATIVE HEALTH SERVICES, INC.: International Competitive Benchmarks and Financial Gap Analysis [DOWNLOAD: ADOBE READER] (reference) Curative Properties of Honey and Bee Venom (reference) Education for Special Needs: The Curative Education Course (reference) Healing Cultures: Art and Religion As Curative Practices in the Caribbean and Its Diaspora (reference) (more book examples)
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Subject	Topic	Quote
Health		This should be curative. (references)
		No effective, curative treatment is yet available. (references)
		Double lung transplantation extends life, but is not curative. (references)
Economic History	Ukraine	Crimea offers ideal climatic conditions, many curative mineral waters, peat and mud. (references)
	Ukraine	The Carpathian region provides a unique combination of mountains, clean air, curative spas, historic sites and ethnic culture. (references)
	China	Experts estimate that the industry, will grow to $6.1 billion this year and $12.1 billion by 2010. The industry promises to continue this trend as growing numbers of consumers seek products with curative, weight loss and other health enhancing effects. (references)
Trade	Turkey	Importing products such as pharmaceuticals; organic chemicals, especially those used to produce medicines and medical products; vaccines for both humans and animals; cosmetic products; chemicals used in cleaning and the food industry; live animals and plants; grains and plant seeds; and hormones require import permission certificates from the Directorate General of Curative Care Service of the Ministry of Health and Agriculture. (references)
Source: compiled by the editor from ICON Group International, Inc.; see credits.

"Curative" is generally used as an adjective (general or positive) -- approximately 95.31% of the time. "Curative" is used about 64 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted)

Parts of Speech	Percent	Usage per 100 Million Words	Rank in English
Adjective (general or positive)	95.31%	61	43,149
Noun (singular)	4.69%	3	202,518
Total	100.00%	64	N/A

Expressions using "curative": curative care ♦ Curative eurhythmy ♦ curative fungicide. Additional references.
Hypenated Usage
	Ending with "curative": non-curative.
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com.

Language		Translations for "curative"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses.
Albanian		shërues (conjurer, healer, healing, remedial, salutary, sanative, sanatory), mjekues (medicative, medicinal), kurues. (various references)

Arabic		‏علاجي (therapeutic), ‏علاج (medicament, medication, remedy, therapy, treatment), ‏المداوي (mender), ‏شفائي (medicinal), ‏شاف (balmy), ‏دوائي (medicinal). (various references)

Bulgarian		целебен (healing, medicinal, sanative, sanatory), целителен, лечебен (healing, medic, medicative, medicinal, salutary, therapeutic). (various references)

Chinese		治病. (various references)

Czech		léèivý (medicinal, remedial, sanative), léèebný (therapeutic), hojivý (medicinal, sanative, sanatory, vulnerary, wholesome). (various references)

Danish		curativus, kurativ, helbredende. (various references)

Dutch		curatief. (various references)

Farsi		علاج بخش , شفابخش (Medic, Medicinal, Remedial), دارای خاصیت درمانی . (various references)

Finnish		terapeuttinen annos (curative dose, therapeutic dose), hoitoannos (curative dose, therapeutic dose). (various references)

French		curatif. (various references)

German		kurativ (curing), heilkräftig (medicated, medicinal), heilend (curing, healing, medicinal). (various references)

Greek		θεραπευτικόσ (medicinal, remedial, sanatory, therapeutic). (various references)

Hebrew		מרפא (balm, cure, healing, remedial, remedy, soothing). (various references)

Hungarian		gyógyhatású (medicinal, physical, virtuous). (various references)

Indonesian		menyembuhkan (allay, heal, vulnerary). (various references)

Italian		curativo (sanatory). (various references)

Japanese Kanji		治療効果 (a curative effect, therapeutic value). (various references)

Japanese Katakana		ちりょう�"うか (a curative effect, therapeutic value). (various references)

Manx		lheihyssagh (curable, healing, remediable, sanative). (various references)

Pig Latin		urativecay

Portuguese		curativo (bandage, dressing, healing, medicinal, remedial, remedy, sanative, sanatory). (various references)

Romanian		curativ (medicamentary), care vindecã (medicative, medicinal). (various references)

Russian		целительный (beneficial, healing, salutary, vulnerary). (various references)

Serbo-Croatian		lekovit (healing, healthful, medicative, medicinal, remedial, salubrious, salutary, sanative, sanatory). (various references)

Spanish		curativo (healing, medicinal, remedial, sanatory). (various references)

Swedish		läkemedel (drug, medicament, medicine, medicines, pharmaceutical, pharmaceuticals, remedy), läkande (medicinal), botmedel, botande (cure, curing, remedial). (various references)

Turkish		sağlık (fitness, health, hygienic, sanitarian, sanitary, sense of well-being, soundness, welfare, well being), iyileştirici (amendatory, healing, recuperative, reformative, reformatory, regenerative, remedial, therapeutic), ilaç (ball, cure, drug, medicament, medicine, physic, pill, remedy), şifalı (healing, officinal, sanative, sanatory), şifa verici, çare (aid, antidote, cure, egress, expedience, expediency, expedient, healer, help, medium, obviation, redress, relief, remedy, resort, resource, shift, solution, way out). (various references)

Ukrainian		цілющий (balmy, beneficial, healing, healthful, medicative, recuperative, salubrious, sanative, sanatory), виправний (correctional, corrective, corrigible, penitentiary, redeemable, reformative, reformatory, remedial), лікувальний (healing, medicative, remedial, therapeutic, therapeutical). (various references)

Vietnamese		chữa bệnh, trị bệnh. (various references)
Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

Language	Period	Translations
Latin	500 BCE-Modern	medici, medicis, medico, medicorum, medicos, medicum, medicus. (various references)
Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

Derivations
	Words beginning with "curative": curatively, curatives. (additional references)
	Words ending with "curative": subcurative. (additional references)
	Words containing "curative": subcuratives. (additional references)
Misspellings
	"Curative" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: ceratite, Cortivo, currative, furative, Karaitivu. (additional references)
Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references).

# of Phoneme Matches	Pronunciation	Word(s) rhyming with "curative" (pronounced kyuh"rutiv)
5	-r u t i v	commemorative, comparative, decorative, demonstrative, illustrative, imperative, interpretive, lucrative, narrative, nutritive, pejorative, restorative, secretive.
4	-u t i v	accusative, acquisitive, additive, affirmative, alliterative, alternative, anticompetitive, argumentative, causative, cognitive, communicative, competitive, consecutive, conservative, consultative, contemplative, cumulative, definitive, degenerative, derivative, diminutive, dispositive, duplicative, evocative, executive, expletive, exploitative, Federative, figurative, fixative, formative, fugitive, generative, hypersensitive, imaginative, indicative, infinitive, informative, initiative, inoperative, inquisitive, insensitive, intuitive, laxative, negative, neoconservative, noncompetitive, noncumulative, nonexecutive, normative, operative, palliative, participative, positive, prerogative, preservative, preventative, primitive, prohibitive, provocative, punitive, putative, recuperative, relative, remunerative, rep, repetitive, representative, sedative, sensitive, speculative, superlative, talkative, tentative, ultraconservative, uncompetitive, uncooperative, unimaginative, uninformative, unrepresentative, vituperative.
3	-t i v	abortive, accommodative, accumulative, active, adaptive, addictive, adjective, administrative, adoptive, affective, appointive, appreciative, assaultive, assertive, attentive, attractive, authoritative, automotive, captive, collaborative, collective, combative, conductive, congestive, connective, constructive, contraceptive, cooperative, corrective, corruptive, counterproductive, creative, deceptive, defective, deliberative, descriptive, destructive, detective, digestive, dilutive, directive, disincentive, disparages, disruptive, dissipative, distinctive, distributive, effective, elective, elucidative, eruptive, exhaustive, exploitive, facultative, festive, furtive, hyperactive, imitative, inactive, inattentive, incentive, ineffective, infective, injunctive, innovative, instinctive, instructive, interactive, introspective, invective, inventive, investigative, irrespective, iterative, legislative, locomotive, manipulative, meditative, motive, native, nonautomotive, nonnative, nonproductive, objective, obstructive, octave, overactive, perceptive, perspective, photoconductive, plaintive, predictive, preemptive, presumptive, preventive, proactive, probative, productive, prognosticative, projective, prospective, protective, qualitative, quantitative, radioactive, reactive, receptive, reconstructive, redemptive, redistributive, reflective, refractive, regulative, rehabilitative, reproductive, respective, restive, restrictive, retroactive, retrospective, seductive, selective, stimulative, subjective, substantive, suggestive, superconductive, supportive, unattractive, unproductive, unreceptive, vegetative, vindictive.
Source: compiled by the editor (additional references); see credits.

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	Words within the letters "a-c-e-i-r-t-u-v"
	-2 letters: active, acuter, curate, curiae, curite, curvet, uratic, uretic, virtue.
	-3 letters: acute, aiver, areic, aurei, auric, avert, caret, carte, carve, cater, caver, cavie, ceria, citer, civet, crate, crave, cruet, curet, curia, curie, curve, cuter, cutie, erica, eruct, evict, irate, react, recta, recti, recut, retia, rivet, terai, trace, trave, triac, trice, truce, uraei, urate.
	Words containing the letters "a-c-e-i-r-t-u-v"
	+1 letter: curatives, incurvate, lucrative, revictual, victualer.
	+2 letters: aviculture, curatively, incurvated, incurvates, revictuals, ulcerative, uncreative, victualers, victualler.
	+3 letters: avicultures, circulative, countervail, diverticula, equivocator, incurvature, involucrate, lubricative, lucratively, neuroactive, overcaution, recultivate, reeducative, revictualed, subcurative, subtractive, underactive, ventricular, vermiculate, victuallers.
	+4 letters: articulative, countervails, diverticular, equivocators, incurvatures, overcautions, overcautious, putrefactive, recultivated, recultivates, recuperative, renunciative, revictualing, revictualled, subcuratives, unattractive, vermiculated, vesicularity.
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Country	Name
USA	Curative Health Services, Inc.
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Expression	Frequency per Day
curative	24
curative health services	13
curative health	5
curative plant power	4
care curative network	2
any as curative have plant power reputed several such valerian	2
curative plant	2
curative salary title	2
curative factor yaloms	2
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Curative

Definition: Curative

Curative

Adjective

Noun

Specialty Definition: Curative

Synonyms: Curative

Synonyms within Context: Curative

Relief

Restoration

Crosswords: Curative

Commercial Usage: Curative

Books

Non-Fiction Usage: Curative

Usage Frequency: Curative

Usage in Company Names: Curative

Curative Health Services, Inc.

Expression: Curative

Frequency of Internet Keywords: Curative

Modern Translation: Curative

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