corrective

Plural: correctives

Noun

• a device for treating injury or disease
• Something that corrects or counteracts something.
• Limitation; restriction.

Adjective Satellite

• designed to promote discipline
  • "the teacher's action was corrective rather than instructional"
• tending or intended to correct or counteract or restore to a normal condition
  • "corrective measures"
  • "corrective lenses"

Adj

• Of or pertaining to correction; serving to correct.
• Qualifying; limiting.

Examples

• As the currents were changing rapidly, the captain had to make many corrective course changes.
• Since the accident I've had to wear a corrective brace.

Synonyms

disciplinal, disciplinary, restorative

Anagrams of corrective