alterative

alterative has 4 senses in the JumbleFix dictionary. Letters: 10.

Definitions

• a.. Causing ateration.
• a.. Gradually changing, or tending to change, a morbid state of the functions into one of health.
• n.. A medicine or treatment which gradually induces a change, and restores healthy functions without sensible evacuations.
• a.. 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"