remedial Meaning, Definition & Usage

adjective satellite tending or intended to rectify or improve
- a remedial reading course
- remedial education
adjective satellite tending to cure or restore to health
alterative; healing; sanative; curative; therapeutic.
- curative powers of herbal remedies
- her gentle healing hand
- remedial surgery
- a sanative environment of mountains and fresh air
- a therapeutic agent
- therapeutic diets

L. remedialis.

Affording a remedy; intended for a remedy, or for the removal or abatement of an evil; as, remedial treatment.
Statutes are declaratory or remedial. Blackstone.

It is an evil not compensated by any beneficial result; it is not remedial, not conservative. I. Taylor.