therapeutic Meaning, Definition & Usage

  1. noun a medicine or therapy that cures disease or relieve pain
    curative; remedy; cure.
  2. adjective satellite tending to cure or restore to health
    alterative; remedial; healing; sanative; curative.
    • curative powers of herbal remedies
    • her gentle healing hand
    • remedial surgery
    • a sanative environment of mountains and fresh air
    • a therapeutic agent
    • therapeutic diets
  3. adjective relating to or involved in therapy
    therapeutical.
    • therapeutic approach to criminality

WordNet

Ther`a*peu"tic, Ther`a*peu"tic*al adjective (Also<
  • Therapeutic
  • Therapeutical
)
Etymology
F. thérapeutique, Gr. , from attendant, servant, to serve, take care of, treat medically, attendant, servant.
Definitions
  1. (Med.) Of or pertaining to the healing art; concerned in discovering and applying remedies for diseases; curative. "Therapeutic or curative physic." Sir T. Browne.
    Medicine is justly distributed into "prophylactic," or the art of preserving health, and therapeutic, or the art of restoring it. I. Watts.
Ther`a*peu"tic noun
Definitions
  1. One of the Therapeutæ.

Webster 1913