therapeutic

Speech parts

1. therapeutic - Noun

2. therapeutic - Adjective

3. therapeutic - Adjective Satellite

Meaning

Alt. of Therapeutical

One of the Therapeutae.

Source: Webster's dictionary

Synonyms

therapeutical curative remedial healing beneficial corrective restorative healthful salutary salubrious ameliorative sanative alterative medicinal rehabilitative
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Antonyms

disease venom bad dangerous ill harmful
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Hypernyms

medicine medication medicament medicinal drug

Hyponyms

nostrum salve application acoustic preventive antidote

Phrases with the word

therapeutic radiology therapeutic hypnosis immuno-therapeutic cloning for therapeutic therapeutic facility therapeutic solution

Examples

Optimistic lies have such immense therapeutic value that a doctor who cannot tell them convincingly has mistaken his profession. George Bernard Shaw

Liberation is an ever shifting horizon, a total ideology that can never fulfill its promises. It has the therapeutic quality of providing emotionally charged rituals of solidarity in hatred - it is the amphetamine of its believers. Arianna Huffington

The world news might not be therapeutic. Ken Kesey

There's a therapeutic aspect to all making, but the nature of working is to compress, condense, and shape stuff, not to just expunge it. It's not just an exorcism. Art Spiegelman

Every therapeutic cure, and still more, any awkward attempt to show the patient the truth, tears him from the cradle of his freedom from responsibility and must therefore reckon with the most vehement resistance. Alfred Adler

People around the world are confusing the therapeutic value of self-expression with permission to manipulate others with their wounds. Caroline Myss

Close letter words and terms

Therapeut therapeutae therapeutant therapeutic abortion therapeutic boarding school therapeutic cloning