Overview of noun corrective

The noun corrective has 1 sense

• corrective, restorative -- (a device for treating injury or disease)

Overview of adj corrective

The adj corrective has 2 senses

• corrective, disciplinary, disciplinal -- (designed to promote discipline; "the teacher's action was corrective rather than instructional"; "disciplinal measures"; "the mother was stern and disciplinary")


• corrective -- (tending or intended to correct or counteract or restore to a normal condition; "corrective measures"; "corrective lenses")