1. Tending or intended to correct or counteract or restore to a normal condition
   "corrective measures"; "corrective lenses"
    
2. Designed to promote discipline
   "the teacher's action was corrective rather than instructional";
   - disciplinary, disciplinal

1. A device for treating injury or disease
   "He wore corrective lenses to improve his vision";
   - restorative

Derived forms: correctives

See also: nonindulgent, strict

Type of: device