English Synonym Finder

corrective

Definitions

Designed to correct or counteract something harmful, undesirable, or erroneous.

Intended to improve a person's behavior, especially by punishing them.

Examples

The manager took corrective action to address the decline in team productivity.

He wore corrective lenses to improve his vision while reading.

Synonyms

remedial disciplinary punitive reformatory rectifying ameliorative curative

Antonyms

damaging harmful corrupting detrimental deleterious injurious worsening