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remedial

[ ri-mee-dee-uhl ]

adjective

  1. affording remedy; tending to remedy something.
  2. intended to correct or improve one's skill in a specified field:

    remedial math.

    Synonyms: corrective



remedial

/ rɪˈmiːdɪəl /

adjective

  1. affording a remedy; curative
  2. denoting or relating to special teaching, teaching methods, or material for backward and slow learners

    remedial education



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Derived Forms

  • reˈmedially, adverb

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Other Words From

  • re·medi·al·ly adverb
  • nonre·medi·al adjective
  • nonre·medi·al·ly adverb

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Word History and Origins

Origin of remedial1

From the Late Latin word remediālis, dating back to 1645–55. See remedy, -al 1

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Example Sentences

Pointing out that Nick Denton writes and speaks like a literate adult and not like a 14-year-old in remedial English.

In his remedial English class, he wrote these comic essays that the teacher actually read aloud in class.

If their students need lots of remedial instruction, the school can extend the school day, the school week, or the school year.

Plus, more Remedial Readers of Richard Russo, Stephen King and John McPhee.

Plus, more Remedial Readers of Stephen King and John McPhee.

And the factor of spontaneous improvement irrespective of all remedial measures is also ignored.

Every good political institution must have a preventive operation as well as a remedial.

But this is now known to be not the true remedial process with respect to the zymotic germs.

No ameliorative, no palliative, no restrictive, no remedial measure will avail.

The new view is a social view, which seeks in all movements, whether of research or of remedial action, for the common welfare.

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