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corrective
 
Adjective corrective has 2 senses
  1. corrective, disciplinary, disciplinal - designed to promote discipline; "the teacher's action was corrective rather than instructional"; "disciplinal measures"; "the mother was stern and disciplinary"
    Antonym: indulgent (indirect, via nonindulgent)
  2. corrective - tending or intended to correct or counteract or restore to a normal condition; "corrective measures"; "corrective lenses"
    Antonym:     worsening (indirect, via bettering)
Noun corrective has 1 sense
  1. corrective, restorative - a device for treating injury or disease
    --1 is a kind of device
    --1 has particulars:
     pack; pack, face pack; pickup, pick-me-up; prosthesis, prosthetic device
corrected correcting correction correctional correctional institution correctional rehabilitation corrections correctitude corrective correctly correctness corrects correded correggio corregidor correkt correlate

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