adjective
- serving to cure or heal; pertaining to curing or remedial treatment; remedial.
noun
- a curative agent; remedy.
adjective
- able or tending to cure
noun
- anything able to heal or cure
adj.early 15c., from Old French curatif (15c.) “curative, healing,” from Latin curat-, past participle stem of curare “to cure” (see cure (v.)). As a noun, attested from 1857. adj.
- Serving or tending to cure.
- Of or relating to the cure of disease.
n.
- Something that cures; a remedy.