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Definition: Alterative |
AlterativeAdjective1. 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". Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
Date "alterative" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1791. (references) |
| Domain | Definitions |
Botanical | A substance used empirically to alter the course of a disease favourably. Calotropis, Centella, Erechtites, Guaiacum, Lepidium, Musa, Phytolacca, Portulaca, Rumex, Solanum, Thespesia, Tragia. (references) |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
Synonyms: AlterativeSynonyms: curative (adj), healing(p) (adj), remedial (adj), sanative (adj), therapeutic (adj). (additional references) |
| Context | Synonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus). |
Change | Transformation, transfiguration; metamorphosis; transmutation; deoxidization; transubstantiation; mutagenesis, transanimation, transmigration, metempsychosis; avatar; alterative. |
Adjective: changed; Verb: newfangled; changeable; transitional; modifiable; alterative. | |
Remedy | Anthelmintic; antidote, antifebrile, antipoison, counterpoison, antitoxin, antispasmodic; bracer, faith cure, placebo; helminthagogue, lithagogue, pick-meup, stimulant, tonic; vermifuge, prophylactic, corrective, restorative; sedative; palliative; febrifuge; alterant, alterative; specific; antiseptic, emetic, analgesic, pain-killer, antitussive, antiinflammatory, antibiotic, antiviral, antifungal, carminative; Nepenthe, Mithridate. |
Adjective: remedial; restorative; corrective, palliative, healing; sanatory, sanative; prophylactic, preventative, immunizing; salutiferous; (salutary); medical, medicinal; therapeutic, chirurgical, epulotic, paregoric, tonic, corroborant, analeptic, balsamic, anodyne, hypnotic, neurotic, narcotic, sedative, lenitive, demulcent, emollient; depuratory; detersive, detergent; abstersive, disinfectant, febrifugal, alterative; traumatic, vulnerary. | |
| Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus. | |
Crosswords: Alterative |
| English words defined with "alterative": Alterant ♦ Juglandin ♦ Monesia. (references) |
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Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| "Alterative" is generally used as an adjective (general or positive) -- approximately 100.00% of the time. "Alterative" is used about 3 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% | 3 | 202,518 |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; 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. |
| Expression | Frequency per Day |
alterative medicine | 2 |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| Language | Translations for "alterative"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Albanian | ndryshues. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Arabic | مبدل (modifier). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Bulgarian | причиняващ промяна. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
French | de changement. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
German | alterative Entzündung (alterative inflammation, tissue alterative inflammation). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Greek | μετατρεπτικόσ, αλλοιώτικοσ (different). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Pig Latin | alterativeay care schimbã. (various references) вызывающий изменение. (various references) naizmeničan (alternate, alternating, interchangeable, intermittent). (various references) cambiante (inconstant, opalescent, veering), cambiador (editor, investor, moneychanger). (various references) değiştirici, değiştiren ilaç. (various references) що може призвести до змін. (various references) l m thay đổi, l m biến đổi. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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"Alterative" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: aliterative, lateritised. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "a-a-e-e-i-l-r-t-t-v" | |
-1 letter: aliterate, retaliate. | |
-2 letters: laterite, levirate, levitate, literate, relative, valerate, varietal. | |
-3 letters: arietta, ariette, atelier, elative, iterate, leavier, rattail, reavail, retitle, tertial, travail, variate, vealier, velaria. | |
-4 letters: aerate, aerial, atrial, attire, aviate, elater, eviler, lariat, larvae, latria, latter, laveer, leaver, letter, levier, liever, litter, ratite, rattle, realia, relate, relive, retail, retial, retile, reveal, revile, tailer. | |
| Words containing the letters "a-a-e-e-i-l-r-t-t-v" | |
+1 letter: alternative, retaliative. | |
+2 letters: alliterative, alternatives. | |
+3 letters: alternatively, extrapolative, overtalkative. | |
+4 letters: alliteratively, overarticulate, rehabilitative. | |
+5 letters: alternativeness, argumentatively, overarticulated, overarticulates. | |
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Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)41 6C 74 65 72 61 74 69 76 65 |
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Morse Code (1836) (references).- .-.. - . .-. .- - .. ...- . |
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Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)01000001 01101100 01110100 01100101 01110010 01100001 01110100 01101001 01110110 01100101 |
HTML Code (1990) (references)A l t e r a t i v e |
ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)0041 006C 0074 0065 0072 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)35788671846786758871 |
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