a device for treating injury or disease tending or intended to correct or counteract or restore to a normal condition; "corrective measures"; "corrective lenses"
designed to promote discipline; "the teacher's action was corrective rather than instructional"; "disciplinal measures"; "the mother was stern and disciplinary
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. a useful corrective to the mistaken view that all psychologists are behaviourists. intended to make something right or better again. something that is intended to correct a fault or mistake corrective to
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. = remedial
That which has the power of correcting, altering, or counteracting what is wrong or injurious; as, alkalies are correctives of acids; penalties are correctives of immoral conduct