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Definitions: Remedial |
RemedialAdjective1. Tending or intended to rectify or improve; "a remedial reading course"; "remedial education". 2. Tending to cure or restore to health; "curative powers of herbal remedies"; "her gentle healing hand"; "remedial surgery"; "a sanative environment of mountains and fresh air"; "a therapeutic agent"; "therapeutic diets". Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
Date "remedial" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1841. (references) |
Etymology: Remedial \Re*me"di*al\ (-al), adjective. [Latin expression remedialis.]. (Websters 1913) |
Synonyms: RemedialSynonyms: alterative (adj), curative (adj), healing(p) (adj), sanative (adj), therapeutic (adj). (additional references) |
| Context | Synonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus). |
Improvement | Reformatory, emendatory; reparatory; (restorative); remedial. |
Relief | Adjective: relieving; Verb: consolatory, soothing; assuaging, assuasive; balmy, balsamic; lenitive, palliative; anodyne; (remedial); curative. |
Remedy | Adjective: remedial; restorative; corrective, palliative, healing; sanatory, sanative; prophylactic, preventative, immunizing; salutiferous; (salutary); medical, medicinal; therapeutic, chirurgical, epulotic, paregoric, tonic, corroborant, analeptic, balsamic, anodyne, hypnotic, neurotic, narcotic, sedative, lenitive, demulcent, emollient; depuratory; detersive, detergent; abstersive, disinfectant, febrifugal, alterative; traumatic, vulnerary. |
Restoration | Restoring; Verb: restorative, recuperative; sanative, reparative, sanatory, reparatory; curative, remedial. |
Salubrity | Sanative; (remedial); restorative; (reinstate); useful. |
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 | EXXON remedial vessels still working on beaches one year after the EXXON VALDEZ disaster.Credit: America's Coastlines. |  | Remedial activity at Iron Mountain Mine.Credit: NOAA Restoration Center. |
 | Remedial activity at Iron Mountain Mine included collecting and treating acid drainage from mine run off. Iron Mountain Mine was mining factory for gold, copper and zinc.Credit: NOAA Restoration Center. |  | Remedial activity at Iron Mountain Mine.Credit: NOAA Restoration Center. |
 | Remedial activities.Credit: NOAA Restoration Center. |  | Fort Rodman at Clarks Point. This fort existed from the Civil War through the 1960s. A wastewater treatment plant, as part of the remedial activities to clean New Bedford Harbor, was placed at the site, after clean-up was completed, the facility was removed and a park was created.Credit: NOAA Restoration Center. |
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| Subject | Topic | Quote |
Health | Ponsford JL, Kinsella G. Evaluation of a remedial programme for attentional deficits following closed-head injury. (references) | |
Business | Contracts for remedial work are generally small and of short duration, so there has been no trend toward consolidation in this industry. (references) | |
Children | Mozambique | Some remedial government programs continued, including programs on education, information dissemination, health care, and family reunification. (references) |
Hungary | Roma and other civic organizations highlighted the practice of placing Roma children in remedial education programs designed for children with mental disabilities or low academic performance, resulting in a form of de facto segregation. (references) | |
Mauritius | Most government programs are administered by the state-funded National Children's Council and the Ministry of Women's Rights, Family Welfare, and Child Development, which provide counseling, investigate reports of child abuse, and take remedial action to protect affected children. (references) | |
Economic History | Grenada | About 10 Peace Corps volunteers in Grenada teach remedial reading, English-language skills, and vocational training. (references) |
Turkey | In response to pressure and funding from various sources, including the World Bank, the government has begun preventive (wastewater treatment plants) and remedial projects. (references) | |
Human Rights | Portugal | Government officials are cooperative; however, most groups complain of slow investigations or remedial actions. (references) |
Trade | Australia | This pricing is not a prohibited practice under international trade agreements, but remedial action may be taken where dumping causes (or threatens to cause) material injury to an Australian industry. (references) |
Women | Kenya | The study noted that the abused women rarely reported the violations, because they believed perpetrators would not be punished, and no protective or remedial action would be taken. (references) |
Worker Rights | Bahrain | Once a worker has lodged a complaint, the Ministry of Labor and Social Affairs opens an investigation and often takes remedial action. (references) |
Source: compiled by the editor from ICON Group International, Inc.; see credits. | ||
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Grover Cleveland | 1885-1889; 1893-1897 | I am confident that such an approach to the subject will result in prudent and effective remedial legislation. |
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| "Remedial" is generally used as an adjective (general or positive) -- approximately 99.39% of the time. "Remedial" is used about 327 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted) |
| Parts of Speech | Percent | Usage per 100 Million Words | Rank in English |
| Adjective (general or positive) | 99.39% | 325 | 15,961 |
| Noun (proper) | 0.61% | 2 | 245,945 |
| Total | 100.00% | 327 | N/A |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
Expressions using "remedial": remedial course ♦ remedial design ♦ remedial measure ♦ remedial measures ♦ remedial teaching ♦ remedial treatment. Additional references. | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. |
| The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com. |
| Language | Translations for "remedial"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Albanian | riparues (mender), shërues (conjurer, curative, healer, healing, salutary, sanative, sanatory), ndreqës (disciplinary, fitter, rectifier, restorer), mjekësor (medic, medical, medicinal, officinal). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Arabic | مصلح (correlated, pacificatory, pacifier, peacemaker, reconditioned, reformer, reformist, regenerative, renovated, restorer). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Bulgarian | който отстранява слабости, който отстранява грешки, който лекува, който поправя, който изправя, лекуващ. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Chinese | 矫正 (Corrective, rectified, rectify, Rectifying). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Czech | nápravný (correctional, corrective), léèivý (curative, medicinal, sanative), doplòovací. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Danish | RT-undervisning (remedial teaching), RT-laerer (remedial teacher), reparation (blocking, corrective maintenance, do up, keeping, maintenance, remedial action, repair, repairs, servicing), remedial teaching (remedial teaching), terapi (curative care, management, medical treatment, palliative or curative, remedial treatment, therapeutics, therapeutics:that branch of medicine which is conerned with the treatment of diseases, therapy), stoetteundervisning i laesning (remedial reading), stoetteundervisning (remedial teaching), stoettelaerer (remedial teacher, resource teacher), kompenserende undervisning (remedial teaching), kompenserende specialundervisning (remedial teaching), behandling (conditioning, control, curative care, management, medical treatment, palliative or curative, processing, remedial treatment, spray, spraying, therapeutics, therapeutics:that branch of medicine which is conerned with the treatment of diseases, therapy, treatment), afværgeteknik (remedial design), afværgeforanstaltning (remedial action), afhjælpning (remedial action). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Dutch | remedial teaching (corrective teaching, remedial teaching, remediation), remedial teacher (remedial teacher, resource teacher), remediërend lezen (remedial reading), herstelaktie (remedial action), bijwerken (finish, finishing, patel, remedial teaching, retouch, to bring up to date, to give extra coaching to, to touch up, to update, tutoring, update, updated, updating), bijwerkles (remedial teaching), correctief onderwijs (corrective teaching, remedial teaching, remediation), curatieve zorg (curative care, management, medical treatment, remedial treatment, treatment cares), foutherstelling (remedial action), geneeskundige behandeling (curative care, management, medical treatment, remedial treatment), behandeling (conditioning, control, curative care, handling, management, medical treatment, processing, remedial treatment, spray, spraying, treatment, waste management), heilgymnastiek (cinesitherapy, kinesiatrics, kinesitherapy, movement-cure, physical therapy, physiotherapy, remedial exercises), veiligheidsmaatregel (protection, remedial measure, safety precaution), interklassikale aktiviteiten (remedial course), saneringsconcept (remedial design), saneringsoperatie (remedial action), heilgymnast (remedial gymnast). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Farsi | مفید (Beneficial, Effect, Good, Instrumental, Profitable, Useful), چاره ساز, گزیری , علاجی , شفابخش (Curative, Medic, Medicinal), درمانی (Therapeutic). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Finnish | kunnostustyö (remedial action), kunnostussuunnitelma (remedial design), korjaustoimi (correction, remedial action), korjaus (alteration, compensation, correction, correction of error, corrective maintenance, equalisation, equalization, figuring, remedial action, repair, repairs, springing), korjaava toimenpide (remedial action), aputoimenpide (remedial action). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
French | réparateur (renovator, repairer). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
German | abhelfend (remedying). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Greek | θεραπευτικόσ (curative, medicinal, sanatory, therapeutic). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Hebrew | מרפא (balm, curative, cure, healing, remedy, soothing). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Hungarian | gyógyító (balmy, healer, healing, medicative, medicinal, physical, sanative, sanatory, vulnerary). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Italian | riparatore (mender, repairer, repairman), correttivo (corrective, corrective amount, corrigent). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Japanese Kanji | 跡始末 (remedial measures, settlement), 後始末 (remedial measures, settlement). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Japanese Katakana | あとしまつ (remedial measures, settlement). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Korean | 개 하". (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Manx | saasoil (resource), foayssagh (beneficent, beneficial), couyragh (benefit, benefit as match, healing, resourceful). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Pig Latin | emedialray reparador (balmy), terapêutico (therapeutic), que remedia, que procura dar solução, medicinal (health, medicinal, physical aptitude), curativo (bandage, curative, dressing, healing, medicine, remedy, sanative, sanatory). (various references) ремонтный (maintenance). (various references) popravni (correctional, corrective, disciplinary, reformative, reformatory), lekovit (curative, healing, healthful, medicative, medicinal, salubrious, salutary, sanative, sanatory), dopunski (accessorial, additional, complementary, expletive, further, supplementary, variant). (various references) terapéutico (therapeutic). (various references) hjälp- (ancillary, assistant, auxiliary, subsidiary), botande (curative, cure, curing). (various references) ซึ่งเป็นการรักษา, ซึ่งช่วยปรับปรุง. (various references) tedavi eden, iyileştirici (amendatory, curative, healing, recuperative, reformative, reformatory, regenerative, therapeutic), iyileştiren, deva olan, çare olan, çözüm getiren. (various references) корективний, виправний (correctional, corrective, corrigible, curative, penitentiary, redeemable, reformative, reformatory), лікувальний (curative, healing, medicative, therapeutic, therapeutical). (various references) meddyginiaethol (medicinal). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Words beginning with "remedial": remedially. (additional references) | |
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"Remedial" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: Armadail, Ramsdal, remeadial, remedie, Remeliik, Remexio, Rumeila, Senediak. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
| # of Phoneme Matches | Pronunciation | Word(s) rhyming with "remedial" (pronounced rumē"dēul) |
| 6 | -m ē" d ē u l | medial. |
| 4 | -d ē u l | custodial, myocardial, primordial, pseudopodial, radial. |
| 3 | -ē u l | actuarial, adverbial, adversarial, advertorial, aerial, alluvial, ambassadorial, antibacterial, arboreal, Ariel, arterial, bacterial, biaxial, bicentennial, biennial, binomial, biomaterial, bronchial, burial, centennial, cereal, ceremonial, coaxial, collegial, colloquial, colonial, conspiratorial, convivial, curatorial, decennial, dictatorial, directorial, editorial, endometrial, entrepreneurial, equatorial, ethereal, extraterrestrial, extraterritorial, filial, fluvial, gubernatorial, immaterial, immemorial, imperial, industrial, intracranial, janitorial, jovial, laryngeal, lineal, magisterial, malarial, managerial, marsupial, material, matrilineal, matrimonial, memorial, menial, mercurial, microbial, millennial, ministerial, nomenclatorial, parochial, patrilineal, perennial, pictorial, pluvial, polynomial, professorial, prosecutorial, proverbial, quadrennial, raptorial, reportorial, sartorial, secretarial, senatorial, serial, terrestrial, territorial, testimonial, tracheal, triennial, trivial, tutorial, venereal, vestigial, vitriol. |
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Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
Direct Anagrams: remailed. | |
| Words within the letters "a-d-e-e-i-l-m-r" | |
-1 letter: emailed, emerald, leadier, limeade, mealier. | |
-2 letters: admire, aedile, aeried, ariled, dealer, dearie, delime, derail, dermal, dialer, elmier, laired, leader, lieder, mailed, mailer, marled, mealie, mediae, medial, medlar, melder, milder, railed, reamed, rediae, redial, relaid, relied, remade, remail. | |
-3 letters: adeem, aerie, aider, ailed, aimed, aimer, aired, alder, ameer, amide, ariel, armed, deair, derma, dimer. | |
| Words containing the letters "a-d-e-e-i-l-m-r" | |
+1 letter: declaimer, dreamlike, epidermal, impearled, madrilene, misleader, misleared, reclaimed. | |
+2 letters: decemviral, declaimers, demoralize, derailment, federalism, hemihedral, madrilenes, malingered, marbleised, marbleized, meliorated, misaltered, misleaders, mislearned, misrelated, premedical, remediable, remedially. | |
+3 letters: aeromedical, ameliorated, caramelised, caramelized, deformalize, deglamorize, deliveryman, demoralized, demoralizer, demoralizes, derailments, detrimental, dilatometer, endometrial, federalisms, greenmailed, lamebrained, legerdemain, meteoroidal, mineralised, mineralized, overclaimed, premedieval, reimplanted, streamlined, thermalized, unreclaimed. | |
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Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)52 65 6D 65 64 69 61 6C |
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Morse Code (1836) (references).-. . -- . -.. .. .- .-.. |
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Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)01010010 01100101 01101101 01100101 01100100 01101001 01100001 01101100 |
HTML Code (1990) (references)R e m e d i a l |
ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)0052 0065 006D 0065 0064 0069 0061 006C |
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Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)5271797170756778 |
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