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Definition: Corrective |
CorrectiveAdjective1. Designed to promote discipline; "the teacher's action was corrective rather than instructional"; "disciplinal measures"; "the mother was stern and disciplinary". 2. Tending or intended to correct or counteract or restore to a normal condition; "corrective measures"; "corrective lenses". Noun1. A device for treating injury or disease. Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
Date "corrective" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1781. (references) |
| The following table is compiled from various sources, across various languages. When English abbreviations or acronyms come from a non-English source, this is noted. | |||
| Entry | Source | Expression | Field |
| COSTAR | English | Corrective Optics Space Telescope Axial Replacement | N/A |
Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |||
Synonyms: CorrectiveSynonyms: disciplinal (adj), disciplinary (adj), restorative (n). (additional references) |
| Context | Synonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus). |
Information | Adjective: corrective. |
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: Corrective |
| English words defined with "corrective": admonishing, admonitory, Antacrid ♦ Castigatory, Correctory ♦ Diorthotic, disciplinal, disciplinary ♦ Emendatory ♦ -ive ♦ oculist, optometrist ♦ prosthesis, prosthetic device ♦ reproachful, reproving. (references) |
| Specialty definitions using "corrective": Corrective Action ♦ glass for corrective lenses. (references) |
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Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |||
| Thumbnail | Description & Credit | Thumbnail | Description & Credit |
 | A phoroptor measures the prescription for corrective lenses. Credit: National Eye Institute, National Institutes of Health. |  | [Leg braces and corrective shoes]. Credit: National Library of Medicine. |
 | [Veterinary Medicine: Horse-shoes for normal and corrective shoeing]. Credit: National Library of Medicine. | ||
Source: pictures compiled by the editor from various references; see picture credits. | |||
| Subject | Topic | Quote |
Health | Diminished vision may be treated with corrective lenses, medication, or, in severe cases, surgery. (references) | |
For that reason, doctors often delay corrective surgery for at least a year to be sure the voice does not recover spontaneously. (references) | ||
NINDS investigators are currently conducting studies to deliver the corrective enzyme and the normal gene to the brain of patients with Tay-Sachs disease. (references) | ||
Business | With this information on hand, an expert will be able to suggest specific corrective measures to improve the performance of the given process and to target the specific energy-related objectives that can be reached. (references) | |
Civil Liberties | Cuba | The document allegedly suggested that the Party take corrective measures, for example, by controlling the distribution of medicines. (references) |
Ukraine | While the Constitution requires that demonstrators merely inform the authorities of a planned demonstration in advance, the law on public assembly stipulates that organizations must apply for permission to their respective local administration at least 10 days before a planned event or demonstration; the new Criminal Code prescribes up to 2 months of corrective labor or a fine for repeatedly staging unauthorized demonstrations. (references) | |
Economic History | Malaysia | There is an increasing demand for haemodialysis treatment, organ transplants, microsurgery, and corrective surgery for congenital disorders. (references) |
Human Rights | Indonesia | It employs persuasion, publicity, and moral authority to highlight abuses, to recommend legal and regulatory changes, and to encourage corrective action. (references) |
Tanzania | The Court of Appeals has ruled that the act cannot be used to deny bail to persons not considered dangerous to society; however, the Government still has not introduced corrective legislation. (references) | |
Yemen | Also in August, the Minister of Justice led an inspection tour of courts in several governorates to review the performance of officials, identify problems and take corrective action, if necessary. (references) | |
Indigenous People | Australia | Aboriginal juveniles accounted for 42 percent of those between the ages of 10 to 17 in juvenile corrective institutions during 2000, according to the AIC. (references) |
Political Economy | Congo | It largely was ineffective as either a deterrent to human rights abuses or as a corrective force. (references) |
POLAND | The original draft forecast for the 2002 government deficit, before corrective measures, was over ten percent of GDP. The government is seeking to cap the deficit at five percent. (references) | |
Source: compiled by the editor from ICON Group International, Inc.; see credits. | ||
| "Corrective" is generally used as an adjective (general or positive) -- approximately 73.47% of the time. "Corrective" is used about 147 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) | 73.47% | 108 | 31,306 |
| Noun (singular) | 26.53% | 39 | 55,036 |
| Total | 100.00% | 147 | N/A |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
Expressions using "corrective": corrective action ♦ corrective amount ♦ corrective disciplinary disciplinal ♦ corrective maintenance ♦ corrective measure ♦ corrective teaching ♦ glass for corrective lenses. Additional references. | |
| Hypenated Usage | |
Ending with "corrective": causal-corrective. | |
| 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 "corrective"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Albanian | korrigjues (correctional, reformative), korrektues. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Arabic | تعديلي, تصحيحي, ترياق لعلاج, إصلاحي (penitentiary, reformative, reformist). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Bulgarian | коректив, отстраняващ, неутрализиращ (counteractive), поправителна мярка, поправителен (amendatory). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Chinese | 矫正 (rectified, rectify, Rectifying, remedial). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Czech | nápravný (correctional, remedial). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Danish | corrigens (corrigent). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Dutch | corrigens (corrigent). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Farsi | تادیب کننده (Trimmer), اصلاح کننده (Corrector). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Finnish | korjaustoimenpide (corrective measure), korjaushuolto (corrective maintenance, repair), korjaus (alteration, correction, repair). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
French | correctif (corrective amount, corrigent). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
German | korrigiernd, fehlerbehebend. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Greek | σωφρονιστικόσ (correctional, reformational), βελτιωτική ουσία (corrigent), επανορθωτικόσ (reparative), διορθωτικόσ (correctional, mendable). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Hebrew | אמצעי מתקן. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Hungarian | javító (corrector, disciplinary, improver, mender, remedial, repairer, repairman, repairmen). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Indonesian | memperbaiki (ameliorate, amend, emend, improve, improve upon, recondition, redo, restore, revise). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Italian | correttivo (remedial). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Japanese Kanji | 近眼鏡 (corrective lenses for myopia). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Japanese Katakana | き"が"きょう (corrective lenses for myopia). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Korean | 교 (Campus, revise). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Manx | smaghtee (chastening, prohibitory), kiartee (set, set in rows). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Pig Latin | orrectivecay corretivo, correctivo (corrigent). (various references) corelativ (correlative), corectiv (qualification, reserve), care corecteazã. (various references) корректив, корригирующее средство, исправительный (correctional, penitentiary, reformative, reformatory). (various references) vaspitni (educational, pedagogic, pedagogical), popravni (correctional, disciplinary, reformative, reformatory, remedial), korektiv, ispravka (revise). (various references) correctivo (reforming). (various references) rättande (correctional), korrektiv. (various references) yatıştırıcı (anodyne, calmative, calming, composing, conciliatory, demulcent, depressant, low profile, nervine, pacificatory, palliative, paregoric, placatory, propitiatory, salve, sedative, soothing, trank, tranquilizer, tranquillizer), düzeltici şey, düzeltici (amendatory, correctional, corrector, corrector of the press, emendatory, improver, proofreader, rectifier, reformative, reformatory, regenerative), ıslah edici şey, ıslah edici. (various references) коректив, коригуючий, виправний (correctional, corrigible, curative, penitentiary, redeemable, reformative, reformatory, remedial), поправка (allowance, correction, retouch). (various references) cái để sửa chữa, để trừng trị để l m mất tác hại, để sửa chữa, để hiệu chỉnh để trừng phạt. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Derivations | |
Words beginning with "corrective": correctively, correctives. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
| # of Phoneme Matches | Pronunciation | Word(s) rhyming with "corrective" (pronounced kere"ktiv) |
| 6 | -er e" k t i v | directive. |
| 5 | -e" k t i v | affective, collective, connective, defective, detective, effective, elective, ineffective, infective, introspective, invective, irrespective, objective, perspective, projective, prospective, protective, reflective, respective, retrospective, selective, subjective. |
| 4 | -k t i v | active, addictive, adjective, attractive, conductive, constructive, counterproductive, destructive, distinctive, hyperactive, inactive, injunctive, instinctive, instructive, interactive, nonproductive, obstructive, octave, overactive, photoconductive, predictive, proactive, productive, radioactive, reactive, reconstructive, refractive, reproductive, restrictive, retroactive, seductive, superconductive, unattractive, unproductive, vindictive. |
| 3 | -t i v | abortive, accommodative, accumulative, accusative, acquisitive, adaptive, additive, administrative, adoptive, affirmative, alliterative, alternative, anticompetitive, appointive, appreciative, argumentative, assaultive, assertive, attentive, authoritative, automotive, captive, causative, cognitive, collaborative, combative, commemorative, communicative, comparative, competitive, congestive, consecutive, conservative, consultative, contemplative, contraceptive, cooperative, corruptive, creative, cumulative, curative, deceptive, decorative, definitive, degenerative, deliberative, demonstrative, derivative, descriptive, digestive, dilutive, diminutive, disincentive, disparages, dispositive, disruptive, dissipative, distributive, duplicative, elucidative, eruptive, evocative, executive, exhaustive, expletive, exploitative, exploitive, facultative, Federative, festive, figurative, fixative, formative, fugitive, furtive, generative, hypersensitive, illustrative, imaginative, imitative, imperative, inattentive, incentive, indicative, infinitive, informative, initiative, innovative, inoperative, inquisitive, insensitive, interpretive, intuitive, inventive, investigative, iterative, laxative, legislative, locomotive, lucrative, manipulative, meditative, motive, narrative, native, negative, neoconservative, nonautomotive, noncompetitive, noncumulative, nonexecutive, nonnative, normative, nutritive, operative, palliative, participative, pejorative, perceptive, plaintive, positive, preemptive, prerogative, preservative, presumptive, preventative, preventive, primitive, probative, prognosticative, prohibitive, provocative, punitive, putative, qualitative, quantitative, receptive, recuperative, redemptive, redistributive, regulative, rehabilitative, relative, remunerative, rep, repetitive, representative, restive, restorative, secretive, sedative, sensitive, speculative, stimulative, substantive, suggestive, superlative, supportive, talkative, tentative, ultraconservative, uncompetitive, uncooperative, unimaginative, uninformative, unreceptive, unrepresentative, vegetative, vituperative. |
Source: compiled by the editor (additional references); see credits. | ||
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "c-c-e-e-i-o-r-r-t-v" | |
-2 letters: coercive, orective, overtire. | |
-3 letters: cerotic, cicoree, coercer, coerect, correct, coterie, coverer, coveter, crevice, erector, evertor, evictor, orectic, reciter, recover, revoice, riveter. | |
-4 letters: cerite, cicero, coerce, corrie, corvee, corvet, covert, cretic, erotic, orrice, recite, rector, reiver, retire, retore, revert, revote, riever, rioter, tierce, trover, vector, verier, verite, vetoer, victor, voicer. | |
-5 letters: cerci, ceric, citer, civet. | |
| Words containing the letters "c-c-e-e-i-o-r-r-t-v" | |
+1 letter: correctives. | |
+2 letters: correctively. | |
+3 letters: reciprocative. | |
+4 letters: cryoprotective, overcorrecting, overcorrection, reconstructive. | |
+5 letters: overcorrections. | |
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