英语词汇“corrective”的英英意思、用法、释义、翻译、读音、例句、短语、词组-英语词典

　

单词	corrective
释义	Trends of corrective View usage for: corrective (kərektɪv) Word forms: plural correctives 1. adjective [usually ADJECTIVE noun] Corrective measures or techniques are intended to put right something that is wrong. Scientific institutions have been reluctant to take corrective action. He has received extensive corrective surgery to his skull. Synonyms: remedial, therapeutic, palliative, restorative More Synonyms of corrective 2. countable noun If something is a corrective to a particular view or account, it gives a more accurate or fairer picture than there would have been without it. [formal] ...a useful corrective to the mistaken view that all psychologists are behaviourists. [+ to] More Synonyms of corrective corrective in British English (kəˈrɛktɪv) adjective 1. tending or intended to correct noun 2. something that tends or is intended to correct Derived forms correctively (corˈrectively) adverb corrective in American English (kəˈrɛktɪv) adjective 1. tending or meant to correct or improve; remedial noun 2. something corrective; remedy Derived forms correctively (corˈrectively) adverb Word origin Fr correctif < LL correctivus Examples of 'corrective' in a sentence corrective It is a useful corrective against smugness. Times, Sunday Times (2008) And such a welcome corrective to the widely held notion that being middle aged is ghastly. Times, Sunday Times (2012) Instead police need to be able to apply corrective measures before troublemakers turn to crime. Times, Sunday Times (2009) Some of its enduring figures fear a catastrophic future unless corrective action is swift. Times, Sunday Times (2011) Then a fourth was needed for further corrective surgery. The Sun (2015) Last night there was evidence of corrective action having been taken. Times, Sunday Times (2009) No amount of corrective surgery can fix that. Times, Sunday Times (2006) But this week there is evidence of corrective action having been taken. Times, Sunday Times (2009) Minor corrective surgery can help and some understanding reassurance could help your wife too. The Sun (2013) It can be cured by corrective surgery. Times, Sunday Times (2008) He is able to offer a useful corrective to the often blinkered view of what the subject is about. The Times Literary Supplement (2014) This is certainly the case with headaches, and it should result in some corrective action. Whiteside, Dr Mike Banish Headaches -how to obtain fast, drug-free relief from headache (1990) To be fair, it had let expenditure run away last year and had to take corrective action. Times, Sunday Times (2006) Also, the section on teaching and preaching is a necessary corrective to some trends in church planting today. Christianity Today (2000) Everybody chopped and changed instruments throughout, which provided a natural corrective to any tendency for the performance to get too slick. Times, Sunday Times (2011) Maybe our series provides a corrective to some reality TV. Times, Sunday Times (2012) In other languages corrective British English: corrective ADJECTIVE Corrective measures or techniques are intended to put right something that is wrong. Scientific institutions have been reluctant to take corrective action. American English: corrective Brazilian Portuguese: corretivo Chinese: 纠正性的 European Spanish: correctivo French: correctif German: korrigierend Italian: correttivo Japanese: 矯正的な Korean: 바로잡는 European Portuguese: corretivo Latin American Spanish: correctivo 1 (adjective) in the sense of remedial Definition intended to put right something that is wrong She has received extensive corrective surgery to her skull. Synonyms remedial They are having to take remedial action. therapeutic It's so therapeutic, a bit like meditation. palliative restorative rehabilitative 2 (adjective) in the sense of disciplinary a corrective institution Synonyms disciplinary She was unhappy that no disciplinary action was being taken. punitive penal an island that served as a penal colony reformatory Additional synonyms in the sense of penal Definition of or relating to punishment an island that served as a penal colony Synonyms disciplinary, punitive, corrective, penalizing, retributive in the sense of therapeutic Definition of or relating to the treatment and cure of disease It's so therapeutic, a bit like meditation. Synonyms beneficial, healing, restorative, good, corrective, remedial, salutary, curative, salubrious, ameliorative, analeptic, sanative Nearby words of corrective corral correct correction corrective correctly correctness correlate Synonyms of 'corrective' corrective Explore 'corrective' in the dictionary
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