curativeとは 意味・読み方・使い方

語源 1

From Middle French curatif.

形容詞

curative (comparative more curative, superlative most curative)

1. Possessing the ability to cure, to heal or treat illness.
   • 1996, Macy Nulman, The Encyclopedia of Jewish Prayer, page 384:

     Making this request is not considered a curative measure but only for preventive purposes, as the Rambam rights, "A healthy man may read scriptural passages and psalms in order to merit of this reading and be with him and protect him from danger and hurtful influences."

   The curative power of the antibiotics introduced in the 1950s was amazing at the time.

2. (figuratively, by extension) Remediative.

   a curative jury instruction to disregard the sheriff's testimony

参考

• therapeutic
• remedial

名詞

curative (複数形 curatives)

1. A substance that acts as a cure.

形容詞

curative (not comparable)

1. (grammar) of a verb, conveying the meaning "the agent makes a patient do something"

   Hypernym: causative

使用する際の注意点

• Curative verbs are common in Uralic languages.