Synonyms for remedial
rɪˈmi di əl

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1. remedial(adj)

   tending or intended to rectify or improve

   "a remedial reading course"; "remedial education"

   Synonyms:
   sanative, therapeutic, alterative, curative, healing(p)

   Antonyms:
   worsening, unhealthful

2. curative, healing(p), alterative, remedial, sanative, therapeutic(adj)

   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"

   Antonyms:
   worsening, unhealthful

Complete Dictionary of Synonyms and Antonyms(0.00 / 0 votes)Rate these synonyms:

1. remedial

   Synonyms:
   sanatory, sanative, alterative, ameliorative, mitigating, corrective, curative, healing, restorative, salubrious

   Antonyms:
   noxious, hurtful, exaggerative, confirmative, morbific, deleterious, inducive, provocative

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1. List of paraphrases for "remedial":

   corrective, curative, catch-up, remedy, remediation, remedies, redress, catching-up, therapeutic, restorative, repair, redressive, compensatory, counselling, sanitation, recovery, reorganization, relief

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How to use remedial in a sentence?

1. Mona Hanna-Attisha:

   It actually drops your IQ. Imagine what we've done to an entire population. We've shifted that IQ curve down. We've lost our high achievers, the next kid who's going to be a neurosurgeon, and we have all these children who may now need remedial services.

2. Robert Hutchins:

   It has been said that we have not had the three R's in America, we had the six R's remedial readin', remedial 'ritin' and remedial 'rithmetic.

3. President John Mahama:

   People are dying. We are taking remedial action (through negotiations) and we are asking the doctors to go back.

4. The SEC:

   Novartis promptly took remedial steps to improve its internal controls at Novartis China.

5. Bob Woodward:

   Richard Nixon was Richard Nixon, and Richard Nixon was driven out of office by the Republican Party. Richard Nixon people used to say no one died at Watergate, and there's a certain truth to that. Two hundred thousand people have died at this, and Trump, by taking remedial action by being honest with the American people, which I — he just didn't understand, does not understand the people he leads.

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