| Remedial (a.) Affording a remedy; intended for a remedy, or for the removal or abatement of an evil; as, remedial treatment. Thesaurus Entries 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 |