corrective Meaning, Definition & Usage

  1. noun a device for treating injury or disease
    restorative.
  2. adjective satellite designed to promote discipline
    disciplinary; disciplinal.
    • the teacher's action was corrective rather than instructional
    • disciplinal measures
    • the mother was stern and disciplinary
  3. adjective satellite tending or intended to correct or counteract or restore to a normal condition
    • corrective measures
    • corrective lenses

WordNet

Cor*rect"ive adjective
Etymology
Cf. F. correctif.
Definitions
  1. Having the power to correct; tending to rectify; as, corrective penalties.
    Mulberries are pectoral, corrective of billious alkali. Arbuthnot.
  2. Qualifying; limiting. "The Psalmist interposeth . . . this corrective particle." Holdsworth.
Cor*rect"ive noun
Definitions
  1. 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. Burke.
  2. Limitation; restriction. Obs. Sir M. Hale.

Webster 1913