THERAPEUTIC
Dictionary entry overview: What does therapeutic mean?
• THERAPEUTIC (noun)
The noun THERAPEUTIC has 1 sense:
1. a medicine or therapy that cures disease or relieve pain
Familiarity information: THERAPEUTIC used as a noun is very rare.
• THERAPEUTIC (adjective)
The adjective THERAPEUTIC has 2 senses:
1. tending to cure or restore to health
2. relating to or involved in therapy
Familiarity information: THERAPEUTIC used as an adjective is rare.
Dictionary entry details
• THERAPEUTIC (noun)
Meaning:
A medicine or therapy that cures disease or relieve pain
Classified under:
Nouns denoting man-made objects
Synonyms:
curative; cure; therapeutic; remedy
Hypernyms ("therapeutic" is a kind of...):
medicament; medication; medicinal drug; medicine ((medicine) something that treats or prevents or alleviates the symptoms of disease)
Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "therapeutic"):
preventative; preventive; prophylactic (remedy that prevents or slows the course of an illness or disease)
catholicon; cure-all; nostrum; panacea (hypothetical remedy for all ills or diseases; once sought by the alchemists)
alleviant; alleviator; palliative (remedy that alleviates pain without curing)
balm; ointment; salve; unction; unguent (semisolid preparation (usually containing a medicine) applied externally as a remedy or for soothing an irritation)
magic bullet (a remedy (drug or therapy or preventive) that cures or prevents a disease)
application; lotion (liquid preparation having a soothing or antiseptic or medicinal action when applied to the skin)
lenitive (remedy that eases pain and discomfort)
emetic; nauseant; vomit; vomitive (a medicine that induces nausea and vomiting)
antidote; counterpoison (a remedy that stops or controls the effects of a poison)
acoustic (a remedy for hearing loss or deafness)
Holonyms ("therapeutic" is a part of...):
treatment (care by procedures or applications that are intended to relieve illness or injury)
• THERAPEUTIC (adjective)
Meaning:
Tending to cure or restore to health
Synonyms:
therapeutic; sanative; healing; curative; alterative; remedial
Context examples:
curative powers of herbal remedies / her gentle healing hand / remedial surgery / a sanative environment of mountains and fresh air / a therapeutic agent / therapeutic diets
Similar:
healthful (conducive to good health of body or mind)
Meaning:
Relating to or involved in therapy
Classified under:
Relational adjectives (pertainyms)
Synonyms:
therapeutical; therapeutic
Context example:
therapeutic approach to criminality
Pertainym:
therapy ((medicine) the act of caring for someone (as by medication or remedial training etc.))
