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Definitions: Rehabilitative |
RehabilitativeAdjective1. Designed to accomplish rehabilitation; "from a penal to a rehabilitative philosophy"- J.B.Costello; "rehabilitative treatment". 2. Helping to restore to good condition; "reconstructive surgery"; "rehabilitative exercises". Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
| Domain | Definitions |
Health | Instruction of incapacitated individuals or of those affected with some mental disorder, so that some or all of their lost ability may be regained. (references) |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
Synonym: RehabilitativeSynonym: reconstructive (adj). (additional references) |
| Synonyms by domain: re-education (medicine), rehabilitation, rehabilitative medicine, rehability. |
| Antonym: punitive (adj). (additional references) |
Crosswords: Rehabilitative |
| English words defined with "rehabilitative": reformative, reformatory. (references) |
| Specialty definitions using "rehabilitative": COORDINATOR OF REHABILITATION SERVICES ♦ director of rehabilitative service, DIRECTOR, CORRECTIONAL AGENCY ♦ Employment, Supported ♦ Food donations to charitable institutions, soup kitchens, and food banks ♦ NURSE, STAFF, COMMUNITY HEALTH ♦ public-health nurs ♦ rehabilitative medicine ♦ speech clinician, SPEECH PATHOLOGIST, speech therapis. (references) |
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Health | Physical therapy and other rehabilitative measures may be used to help muscle function. (references) | |
Home-based programs have the potential to provide rehabilitative services to a wider population. (references) | ||
Many forms of long-term rehabilitative therapy are available for people who have permanent disabilities resulting from transverse myelitis. (references) | ||
Business | There is one "mixed" prison in Cuernavaca, which offers rehabilitative activities such as vocational and recreational workshops. (references) | |
Children | Dominican Republic | In practice, juveniles are detained in excess of the time permitted by law and then are sent to jail rather than referred for rehabilitative services. (references) |
China | The Government, at times in conjunction with NGO's such as the Lions Club International, sponsors a wide range of preventive and rehabilitative programs, including efforts to reduce congenital birth defects, treat cataracts, and treat hearing disorders. (references) | |
Grenada | The Social Welfare Division within the Ministry of Labor provides probationary and rehabilitative services to youths, day care services and social work programs to families, assistance to families wishing to adopt or provide foster care to children, and financial assistance to the six children's homes run by private organizations. (references) | |
Human Rights | Japan | Confession is regarded as the first step in the rehabilitative process. (references) |
India | By law juveniles are to be detained in rehabilitative facilities; however, they are at times detained in prison, especially in rural areas. (references) | |
Source: compiled by the editor from ICON Group International, Inc.; see credits. | ||
| "Rehabilitative" is generally used as an adjective (general or positive) -- approximately 100.00% of the time. "Rehabilitative" is used about 56 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) | 100% | 56 | 45,296 |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
Expression using "rehabilitative": rehabilitative medicine. Additional references. | |
| 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 "rehabilitative"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Danish | revalidering (re-adaptation, re-education, rehabilitation, rehabilitative medicine, rehability), reedukation (re-education, rehabilitation, rehabilitative medicine, rehability). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Dutch | revalidatie (physical therapy, physiotherapy, re-adaptation, re-education, rehabilitation, rehabilitative medicine, rehability), re-educatie (re-education, rehabilitation, rehabilitative medicine, rehability), reëducatie (re-education, rehabilitation, rehabilitative medicine, rehability). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
French | rééducation (re-educatation, re-education, rehabilitation, rehabilitative medicine, rehability). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
German | wiederherstellend (re establishing, retrieving). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Greek | κινησιοθεραπεία (cinesitherapy, kinesiatrics, kinesitherapy, movement-cure, perception of motion, re-education, rehabilitation, rehabilitative medicine, rehability, respiratory physical therapy), επανεκπαίδευση (re-education, rehabilitation, rehabilitative medicine, rehability). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Italian | rieducazione (re-education, rehabilitation, rehabilitative medicine, rehability). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Pig Latin | ehabilitativeray reeducação (re-education, rehabilitation, rehabilitative medicine, rehability). (various references) реабилитационный. (various references) reeducación (re-education, rehabilitation, rehabilitative medicine, rehability). (various references) ซึ่งกลับสู่ส าพปกติ. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| # of Phoneme Matches | Pronunciation | Word(s) rhyming with "rehabilitative" (pronounced rē'hubi"lutā'tiv or rē'ubi"lutā'tiv) |
| 7 | -l u t ā' t i v | qualitative. |
| 6 | -u t ā' t i v | authoritative, imitative, meditative, quantitative. |
| 5 | -t ā' t i v | facultative. |
| 4 | -ā' t i v | accommodative, accumulative, administrative, appreciative, collaborative, cooperative, deliberative, dissipative, elucidative, innovative, investigative, iterative, legislative, manipulative, prognosticative, regulative, stimulative. |
| 3 | -t i v | abortive, accusative, acquisitive, active, adaptive, addictive, additive, adjective, adoptive, affective, affirmative, alliterative, alternative, anticompetitive, appointive, argumentative, assaultive, assertive, attentive, attractive, automotive, captive, causative, cognitive, collective, combative, commemorative, communicative, comparative, competitive, conductive, congestive, connective, consecutive, conservative, constructive, consultative, contemplative, contraceptive, corrective, corruptive, counterproductive, creative, cumulative, curative, deceptive, decorative, defective, definitive, degenerative, demonstrative, derivative, descriptive, destructive, detective, digestive, dilutive, diminutive, directive, disincentive, disparages, dispositive, disruptive, distinctive, distributive, duplicative, effective, elective, eruptive, evocative, executive, exhaustive, expletive, exploitative, exploitive, Federative, festive, figurative, fixative, formative, fugitive, furtive, generative, hyperactive, hypersensitive, illustrative, imaginative, imperative, inactive, inattentive, incentive, indicative, ineffective, infective, infinitive, informative, initiative, injunctive, inoperative, inquisitive, insensitive, instinctive, instructive, interactive, interpretive, introspective, intuitive, invective, inventive, irrespective, laxative, locomotive, lucrative, motive, narrative, native, negative, neoconservative, nonautomotive, noncompetitive, noncumulative, nonexecutive, nonnative, nonproductive, normative, nutritive, objective, obstructive, octave, operative, overactive, palliative, participative, pejorative, perceptive, perspective, photoconductive, plaintive, positive, predictive, preemptive, prerogative, preservative, presumptive, preventative, preventive, primitive, proactive, probative, productive, prohibitive, projective, prospective, protective, provocative, punitive, putative, radioactive, reactive, receptive, reconstructive, recuperative, redemptive, redistributive, reflective, refractive, relative, remunerative, rep, repetitive, representative, reproductive, respective, restive, restorative, restrictive, retroactive, retrospective, secretive, sedative, seductive, selective, sensitive, speculative, subjective, substantive, suggestive, superconductive, superlative, supportive, talkative, tentative, ultraconservative, unattractive, uncompetitive, uncooperative, unimaginative, uninformative, unproductive, unreceptive, unrepresentative, vegetative, vindictive, vituperative. |
| 7 | -l u t ā' t i v | qualitative. |
| 6 | -u t ā' t i v | authoritative, imitative, meditative, quantitative. |
| 5 | -t ā' t i v | facultative. |
| 4 | -ā' t i v | accommodative, accumulative, administrative, appreciative, collaborative, cooperative, deliberative, dissipative, elucidative, innovative, investigative, iterative, legislative, manipulative, prognosticative, regulative, stimulative. |
| 3 | -t i v | abortive, accusative, acquisitive, active, adaptive, addictive, additive, adjective, adoptive, affective, affirmative, alliterative, alternative, anticompetitive, appointive, argumentative, assaultive, assertive, attentive, attractive, automotive, captive, causative, cognitive, collective, combative, commemorative, communicative, comparative, competitive, conductive, congestive, connective, consecutive, conservative, constructive, consultative, contemplative, contraceptive, corrective, corruptive, counterproductive, creative, cumulative, curative, deceptive, decorative, defective, definitive, degenerative, demonstrative, derivative, descriptive, destructive, detective, digestive, dilutive, diminutive, directive, disincentive, disparages, dispositive, disruptive, distinctive, distributive, duplicative, effective, elective, eruptive, evocative, executive, exhaustive, expletive, exploitative, exploitive, Federative, festive, figurative, fixative, formative, fugitive, furtive, generative, hyperactive, hypersensitive, illustrative, imaginative, imperative, inactive, inattentive, incentive, indicative, ineffective, infective, infinitive, informative, initiative, injunctive, inoperative, inquisitive, insensitive, instinctive, instructive, interactive, interpretive, introspective, intuitive, invective, inventive, irrespective, laxative, locomotive, lucrative, motive, narrative, native, negative, neoconservative, nonautomotive, noncompetitive, noncumulative, nonexecutive, nonnative, nonproductive, normative, nutritive, objective, obstructive, octave, operative, overactive, palliative, participative, pejorative, perceptive, perspective, photoconductive, plaintive, positive, predictive, preemptive, prerogative, preservative, presumptive, preventative, preventive, primitive, proactive, probative, productive, prohibitive, projective, prospective, protective, provocative, punitive, putative, radioactive, reactive, receptive, reconstructive, recuperative, redemptive, redistributive, reflective, refractive, relative, remunerative, rep, repetitive, representative, reproductive, respective, restive, restorative, restrictive, retroactive, retrospective, secretive, sedative, seductive, selective, sensitive, speculative, subjective, substantive, suggestive, superconductive, superlative, supportive, talkative, tentative, ultraconservative, unattractive, uncompetitive, uncooperative, unimaginative, uninformative, unproductive, unreceptive, unrepresentative, vegetative, vindictive, vituperative. |
Source: compiled by the editor (additional references); see credits. | ||
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "a-a-b-e-e-h-i-i-i-l-r-t-t-v" | |
-2 letters: rehabilitate. | |
-3 letters: retaliative. | |
-4 letters: habilitate. | |
-5 letters: aliterate, biathlete, bivariate, heartbeat, heritable, iterative, retaliate, treatable, veritable, vibratile. | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. SCRABBLE® is a registered trademark. All intellectual property rights in and to the game are owned in the U.S.A and Canada by Hasbro Inc., and throughout the rest of the world by J.W. Spear & Sons Limited of Maidenhead, Berkshire, England, a subsidiary of Mattel Inc. Mattel and Spear are not affiliated with Hasbro. | |
Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)52 65 68 61 62 69 6C 69 74 61 74 69 76 65 |
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Morse Code (1836) (references).-. . .... .- -... .. .-.. .. - .- - .. ...- . |
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Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)01010010 01100101 01101000 01100001 01100010 01101001 01101100 01101001 01110100 01100001 01110100 01101001 01110110 01100101 |
HTML Code (1990) (references)R e h a b i l i t a t i v e |
ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)0052 0065 0068 0061 0062 0069 006C 0069 0074 0061 0074 0069 0076 0065 |
| British Sign Language (Fingerspelling, BSL; 1992, British Deaf Association Dictionary of British Sign Language) (references)
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Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)5271746768757875866786758871 |
| 1. Definition 2. Synonyms 3. Crosswords 4. Usage: Commercial | 5. Quotations: Non-fiction 6. Usage Frequency 7. Expressions 8. Expressions: Internet | 9. Translations: Modern 10. Rhymes 11. Anagrams 12. Orthography | 13. Bibliography |
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