Therapeutic

Meaning of Therapeutic

adjective
  1. relating to the healing of disease.
    diagnostic and therapeutic facilities
noun
  1. the branch of medicine concerned with the treatment of disease and the action of remedial agents.
  2. a treatment, therapy, or drug.
    current therapeutics for asthma

mid 17th century: via modern Latin from Greek therapeutikos, from therapeuein ‘minister to, treat medically’.

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Hyphenation of Therapeutic

Ther-a-peu-tic

  • It consists of 4 syllables and 11 chars.
  • Therapeutic is a word polysyllabic because it has four or more syllables

Therapeutic synonyms

Meaning curative:

curative, healing, alterative, remedial, sanative

Meaning therapeutical:

therapeutical

Meaning remedy:

remedy, curative, cure

Meaning relieve (a person or animal) of the symptoms of a disease or condition:

curing

Meaning (of a substance or plant) having healing properties:

medicinal

Meaning having the ability to restore health, strength, or well-being:

restorative

Meaning giving a feeling of vigour or well-being; invigorating:

tonic

Meaning designed to correct or counteract something harmful or undesirable:

corrective

Meaning resulting in good; favourable or advantageous:

beneficial

Meaning to be desired or approved of:

good

Meaning health-giving; healthy:

salubrious

Meaning (especially with reference to something unwelcome or unpleasant) producing good effects; beneficial:

salutary

Meaning (chiefly of a drug) tending to restore a person's health or strength; restorative:

analeptic

Meaning relating to a physician or to medicine; medical:

iatric

Therapeutic antonyms

Meaning causing or likely to cause harm:

harmful

Meaning tending to cause harm:

detrimental

Words that rhyme with Therapeutic

Argonautic, aeronautic, argonautic, astronautic, cosmonautic, nautic, antiscorbutic, butic, postscorbutic, scorbutic, empiricutic, Aleutic, acroteleutic, actinotherapeutic, aromatherapeutic, autotherapeutic, bacteriotherapeutic, bibliotherapeutic, chemotherapeutic, choreutic, diazeutic, digoneutic, electrotherapeutic, emphyteutic, emporeutic, halieutic, hermeneutic, homoeoteleutic, hydrotherapeutic, ichneutic, immunotherapeutic, latreutic, maieutic, mechanotherapeutic, metallotherapeutic, methodeutic, monogoneutic, nonpharmaceutic, nontherapeutic, organotherapeutic, paedeutic, paideutic, pharmaceutic, pharmacotherapeutic, phototherapeutic, phthisiotherapeutic, physicotherapeutic, physiotherapeutic, polygoneutic, polypharmaceutic

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