corrective

名词 n. 形容词 adj.
中文释义
英 /kəˈɹɛktɪv/    美 /kəˈɹɛktɪv/|/kəˈɹektɪv/

英文释义

名词 n.
  1. Something that corrects or counteracts something.
    — alkalies are correctives of acids
  2. Limitation; restriction. obsolete
    — What Correctives there may be supposed that may check and restrain that Increase of Mankind, that otherwise according to the ordinary course of Nature would have obtained in the World.
形容词 adj.
  1. Of or pertaining to correction; serving to correct. not-comparable
    — As the currents were changing rapidly, the captain had to make many corrective course changes.
  2. Qualifying; limiting. not-comparable,obsolete
    — The Psalmist interposeth a caution in this corrective particle, Yea, Happy. It hath the force of a revocation, whereby he seems to retract what went before, not simply and absolutely, but in a certain degree […]

词形变化

correctives plural

词源

词源 1
Borrowed from French correctif, equivalent to correct + -ive.
词源 2
Borrowed from French correctif, equivalent to correct + -ive.
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