remedial

/ri'mi:djəl/

Thân thiện

A student attends a remedial math class after school.

Definition

1. Adjective:
   • Intended to correct or improve something that is deficient or faulty: "remedial" describes actions, measures, or courses designed to address and fix a problem, weakness, or lack of skill.
   • Intended to cure or restore to health; having healing properties: In medical or therapeutic contexts, "remedial" describes treatments or agents that aim to heal or cure.

Examples of Usage

• Adjective (Corrective/Improvement sense):
  • The school offers remedial classes in mathematics for students who are struggling.
  • After the audit, the company implemented several remedial actions to fix the accounting errors.
• Adjective (Healing/Curative sense):
  • The spa offers various remedial therapies for muscle pain.
  • Some plants are believed to have remedial properties for common ailments.

Advanced Usage

• "remedial work": work done to repair or improve a defective situation.
  • The building required extensive remedial work to make it safe.
• "remedial justice": a concept referring to measures taken to correct an injustice.
  • The commission's role was to seek remedial justice for the victims.

Variants and Related Words

• Remedy (n/v): (n) A medicine, treatment, or solution to a problem. (v) To solve or correct a problem.
  • Aspirin is a common remedy for headaches. We must remedy this situation immediately.
• Remediation (n): The action of remedying something, especially environmental contamination.
  • The site is undergoing soil remediation.

Synonyms

• Corrective: Designed to correct or counteract something harmful or undesirable.
• Therapeutic: Relating to the healing of disease; having a good effect on the body or mind.
• Curative: Able to cure disease or illness.

Related Phrases

• Take remedial measures/steps: To take actions intended to correct a problem.
  • The government was forced to take remedial measures to address the economic crisis.

Học thuật

Adjective

1. 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
2. tending or intended to rectify or improve
   • a remedial reading course
   • remedial education

Từ đồng nghĩa

• curative
• healing
• alterative
• sanative
• therapeutic