Remedial
Re`me´di`al Pronunciation: ~al
REMEDIAL. That which affords a remedy; as, a remedial statute, or one which
is made to supply some defects or abridge some superfluities of the common
law. 1 131. Com. 86. The term remedial statute is also applied to those acts
which give a new remedy. Esp. Pen. Act. 1.
adjuvant,
aidful,
alleviating,
alleviative,
alterative,
analeptic,
analgesic,
anesthetic,
anodyne,
assuasive,
balmy,
balsamic,
beneficial,
benumbing,
cathartic,
cleansing,
conducive,
constructive,
contributory,
corrective,
curative,
curing,
deadening,
demulcent,
dulling,
easing,
emollient,
furthersome,
good for,
healing,
helpful,
iatric,
lenitive,
medicative,
medicinal,
mitigating,
mitigative,
numbing,
pain-killing,
palliative,
positive,
profitable,
purgative,
relieving,
reparative,
reparatory,
restitutive,
restitutory,
restorative,
salutary,
sanative,
sanatory,
serviceable,
softening,
soothing,
subduing,
therapeutic,
theriac,
useful,
vulnerary,
wholesome