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remedial

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re·me·di·al  (r-md-l)
adj.
1. Supplying a remedy.
2. Intended to correct or improve deficient skills in a specific subject: remedial reading.
re·medi·al·ly adv.
remedial [rɪˈmiːdɪəl]
adj
1. (Medicine) affording a remedy; curative
2. (Social Science / Education) denoting or relating to special teaching, teaching methods, or material for backward and slow learners remedial education
remedially  adv
ThesaurusLegend:  Synonyms Related Words Antonyms
Adj.1.remedial - tending or intended to rectify or improve; "a remedial reading course"; "remedial education"
bettering - changing for the better
2.remedial - tending to cure or restore to healthremedial - tending to cure or restore to health; "curative powers of herbal remedies"; "her gentle healing hand"; "remedial surgery"; "a sanative environment of mountains and fresh air"; "a therapeutic agent"; "therapeutic diets"
alterative, curative, healing, sanative, therapeutic
healthful - conducive to good health of body or mind; "a healthful climate"; "a healthful environment"; "healthful nutrition"; "healthful sleep"; "Dickens's relatively healthful exuberance"
remedial
adjective
1. therapeutic, healing, curing, curative, health-promoting, alleviative He is doing remedial exercises.
2. corrective, preventive, counteracting, reactive, compensatory They are having to take remedial action.
3. special needs remedial education
Translations
remedial [rɪˈmiːdɪəl]
A. ADJ (Med) → reparador (fig) → correctivo
B. CPD remedial course N → curso m correctivo
remedial education N → educación f especial
remedial teaching N → enseñanza f de los niños con dificultades
remedial [rɪˈmiːdiəl] adj [tuition, classes] → de rattrapage
remedial
adj attr → Hilfs-; (Med) → Heil-; remedial action/measures → Hilfsmaßnahmen pl; remedial exercises → Heilgymnastik f; remedial treatment (Med) → Heilbehandlung f; to teach remedial English/reading → einen Förderkurs in Englisch/im Lesen leiten; remedial education → fördernde Erziehung (für lernschwache Schüler); remedial teaching → Förder- or Hilfsunterricht m; remedial work (Sch) → Förderaufgaben pl; remedial class → Förderklasse f; remedial course → Förderkurs m; she no longer needs remedial help (with learning) → sie benötigt keinen Förderunterricht mehr
remedial [rɪˈmiːdɪəl] adj (Med) → correttivo/a; (action) → atto/a a porre rimedio; (school, teaching) → speciale; (class, tuition) → di ricupero
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If the legislative authority, which possesses so many means of operating on the motives of the other departments, should be able to gain to its interest either of the others, or even one third of its members, the remaining department could derive no advantage from its remedial provision.
Federalist Papers Authored by James Madison by Madison, James View in context
Bleeding and weak I reached my women, who, accustomed to such happenings, dressed my wounds, applying the wonderful healing and remedial agents which make only the most instantaneous of death blows fatal.
A Princess of Mars by Burroughs, Edgar Rice View in context
This added calamity nearly unmanned me; the recurrence of the complaint proved that without powerful remedial applications all hope of cure was futile; and when I reflected that just beyond the elevations, which bound me in, was the medical relief I needed, and that although so near, it was impossible for me to avail myself of it, the thought was misery.
Typee by Melville, Herman View in context
 
 
 
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