corrective

Estimated CEFR level: C2 — Proficiency

Estimated from word frequency; not an official CEFR classification.

Definition

noun a device for treating injury or disease
adjective designed to promote discipline
adjective tending or intended to correct or counteract or restore to a normal condition

Borrowed from French correctif, equivalent to correct + -ive.

This rigidity is the comic, and laughter is its corrective. — Laughter: An Essay on the Meaning of the Comic, Henri Bergson
That is only the natural consequence of a legal marriage, so to say, its corrective, a protest. — Crime and Punishment, Fyodor Dostoyevsky
For example, inmates of the MVD-administered “corrective labor colonies” engaged in brickmaking, heavy construction work, and lumbering. — Report of the President's Commission on the Assassination of President John F. Kennedy, United States. Warren Commission

restorative

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