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[ ri-mee-dee-uhl ] / rɪˈmi di əl / SEE SYNONYMS FOR remedial ON THESAURUS.COM
adjectiveaffording remedy; tending to remedy something. intended to correct or improve one's skill in a specified field: remedial math. Origin of remedialFrom the Late Latin word remediālis, dating back to 1645–55. See remedy, -al1 SYNONYMS FOR remedialSEE SYNONYMS FOR remedial ON THESAURUS.COM OTHER WORDS FROM remedialre·me·di·al·ly, adverbnon·re·me·di·al, adjectivenon·re·me·di·al·ly, adverbWORDS THAT MAY BE CONFUSED WITH remedialremediable, remedial Words nearby remedialremblai, Rembrandt, remdesivir, REME, remediable, remedial, remedial reading, remediate, remediation, remediless, remedy Dictionary.com UnabridgedBased on the Random House Unabridged Dictionary, © Random House, Inc. 2020 Example sentences from the Web for remedialPointing out that Nick Denton writes and speaks like a literate adult and not like a 14-year-old in remedial English. Rage Against GamerGate’s Hate Machine: What I Got For Speaking Up|Arthur Chu|November 17, 2014|DAILY BEAST In his remedial English class, he wrote these comic essays that the teacher actually read aloud in class. A Full-Length Bill Cosby Portrait: From Track Star to Ugly Sweaters|Scott Porch|September 24, 2014|DAILY BEAST If their students need lots of remedial instruction, the school can extend the school day, the school week, or the school year. What Charter Schools Are Getting Right And Why They Top Our High School Rankings|Conor P. Williams|August 27, 2014|DAILY BEAST And yet the hierarchy managed to maintain its assumptions and to overwhelm all remedial attempts. Luther and the Reformation:|Joseph A. Seiss
It is really a remedial effort, not necessarily successful, but an attempt to change, or have changed existing conditions. Mind and Body|William Walker Atkinson The remedial part of a law is so necessary a consequence of the former two, that laws must be very vague and imperfect without it. Commentaries on the Laws of England|William Blackstone And it is a process that requires time to do its remedial work, and there was no time. Herbert Hoover|Vernon Kellogg The constant use of strong drink impairs its remedial effect. Nineteen Centuries of Drink in England|Richard Valpy French
British Dictionary definitions for remedial
adjectiveaffording a remedy; curative denoting or relating to special teaching, teaching methods, or material for backward and slow learnersremedial education Derived forms of remedialremedially, adverbCollins English Dictionary - Complete & Unabridged 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012 Words related to remedialcorrective, therapeutic, antiseptic, curative, curing, healthful, invigorating, soothing, tonic, wholesome, reformative, medicinal, alleviative, antidotal, medicating, purifying, recuperative, remedying, repairing, restitutive |