What does Remedial mean?

Definitions for Remedial
rɪˈmi di əlre·me·di·al

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Princeton's WordNet

  1. remedialadjective

    tending or intended to rectify or improve

    "a remedial reading course"; "remedial education"

  2. curative, healing(p), alterative, remedial, sanative, therapeuticadjective

    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"

Wiktionary

  1. remedialadjective

    curative; providing a remedy

  2. remedialadjective

    intended to correct or improve deficient skills in some subject

ChatGPT

  1. remedial

    Remedial refers to actions, strategies, or programs intended to correct, improve or rectify a deficiency, difficulty, or problem, typically in an educational or learning context. It often aims to bring a student or an individual up to a satisfactory or expected standard or level, particularly in a specific subject or skill they are struggling with.

Webster Dictionary

  1. Remedialadjective

    affording a remedy; intended for a remedy, or for the removal or abatement of an evil; as, remedial treatment

  2. Etymology: [L. remedialis.]

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Numerology

  1. Chaldean Numerology

    The numerical value of Remedial in Chaldean Numerology is: 7

  2. Pythagorean Numerology

    The numerical value of Remedial in Pythagorean Numerology is: 4

Examples of Remedial in a Sentence

  1. President John Mahama:

    People are dying. We are taking remedial action (through negotiations) and we are asking the doctors to go back.

  2. Bob Woodward:

    Richard Nixon was Richard Nixon, and Richard Nixon was driven out of office by the Republican Party. Richard Nixon people used to say no one died at Watergate, and there's a certain truth to that. Two hundred thousand people have died at this, and Trump, by taking remedial action by being honest with the American people, which I — he just didn't understand, does not understand the people he leads.

  3. John Kirton:

    Why don't they announce a whole set of remedial measures right here, right now?

  4. The Academy:

    As a direct result of one of their studies, more than five million Indian children have benefited from effective programs of remedial tutoring in school, another example is the heavy subsidies for preventive healthcare that have been introduced in many countries.

  5. The SEC:

    Novartis promptly took remedial steps to improve its internal controls at Novartis China.

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