1. curative - Noun
2. curative - Adjective
3. curative - Verb
4. curative - Adjective Satellite
Relating to, or employed in, the cure of diseases; tending to cure.
Source: Webster's dictionaryWhenever my patient begins to count the carriages in her funeral procession I subtract 50 per cent from the curative power of medicines. O. Henry
War has always been the grand sagacity of every spirit which has grown too inward and too profound; its curative power lies even in the wounds one receives. Friedrich Nietzsche
Analysis brings no curative powers in its train; it merely makes us conscious of the existence of an evil, which, oddly enough, is consciousness. Henry Miller
The correct didactic analysis is one that does not in the least differ from the curative treatment. How, indeed, shall the future analyst learn the technique if he does not experience it just exactly as he is to apply it later? Otto Rank
The Government cannot be concerned any longer with outmoded penological theories....Common criminals...can best be dealt with on a purely curative basis. Kill the criminal reflex, that's all. Anthony Burgess
The Bellevue air [suburb outside Paris with curative waters] has done me a world of good.. .But Alas! Naturalist painting is more in disfavor than ever. Édouard Manet