therapeutic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: enpr: thĕr'ə-pyo͞oʹtĭk
ipa: /ˌθɛɹ.əˈpjuː.tɪk/
ipa: /ˌθɛɹ.əˈpju.tɪk/
ipa: [ˌθɛɹ.əˈpju.ɾɪk]
ipa: /ˌθeɹ.əˈpjʉː.tɪk/
ipa: [ˌθeɹ.əˈpjʉː.ɾɪk]
ipa: /ˌθeɹ.əˈpjʉː.tək/
ipa: [ˌθeɹ.əˈpjʉː.ɾək]
Forms: form: more therapeutic
form: most therapeutic
form: therapeutick
Etymology: From Middle English terapeucia, from New Latin therapeuticus (“curing, healing”), from Ancient Greek θεραπευτικός (therapeutikós, “attentive, helpful, obliging, curative”), from θεραπευτής (therapeutḗs, “one who waits on another, an attendant”), from θεραπεύω (therapeúō, “I wait on, attend, serve, cure”).
Senses: examples: text: “We have been working on nanomachines over the past decade,” Joseph Wang, chairman of nanoengineering at UCSD, said. “One of the challenges we considered is to deliver therapeutic cargo deep.
ref: 2016 February 1, Tom Whipple, “Microcannon firing nanobullets: the future of targeted medicine”, in The Times:
glosses: Of, or relating to therapy.
examples: text: Medicine is justly distributed into prophylactic, or the art of preserving health, and therapeutic, or the art of restoring it.
ref: 1725, Isaac Watts, Logick: Or, The Right Use of Reason in the Enquiry after Truth, […], 2nd edition, London: […] John Clark and Richard Hett, […], Emanuel Matthews, […], and Richard Ford, […], published 1726, →OCLC:
text: His music is very therapeutic when you listen to it.
ref: 2009, Isha McKenzie-Mavinga, Black Issues in the Therapeutic Process:
glosses: Having a positive effect on the body or mind.
Synonyms: therapeutical
curative
remedial
Derived terms: actinotherapeutic
aerotherapeutic
antitherapeutic
aromatherapeutic
autotherapeutic
bacteriotherapeutic
balneotherapeutic
bibliotherapeutic
biotherapeutic
brachytherapeutic
cardiotherapeutic
chemicotherapeutic
chemotherapeutic
chromotherapeutic
chronotherapeutic
chrysotherapeutic
climatotherapeutic
cotherapeutic
countertherapeutic
cybertherapeutic
cytotherapeutic
dermatotherapeutic
dystherapeutic
ecotherapeutic
electrotherapeutic
eutherapeutic
extratherapeutic
extra-therapeutic
fabotherapeutic
gerontotherapeutic
heliotherapeutic
hemotherapeutic
homeotherapeutic
hydrotherapeutic
hypnotherapeutic
immunotherapeutic
logotherapeutic
magnetotherapeutic
massotherapeutic
mechanotherapeutic
metallotherapeutic
monotherapeutic
moralistic therapeutic deism
multitherapeutic
musicotherapeutic
nanotherapeutic
narcotherapeutic
naturotherapeutic
neurotherapeutic
nontherapeutic
oligotherapeutic
oncotherapeutic
organotherapeutic
osmotherapeutic
pedotherapeutic
peritherapeutic
pharmacotherapeutic
phototherapeutic
physiotherapeutic
phytotherapeutic
pneumotherapeutic
polytherapeutic
posttherapeutic
pretherapeutic
pseudotherapeutic
psychophysicotherapeutic
psychotherapeutic
pyrotherapeutic
radiotherapeutic
sclerotherapeutic
senotherapeutic
serotherapeutic
sociotherapeutic
somatotherapeutic
subtherapeutic
supertherapeutic
supratherapeutic
teletherapeutic
thalassotherapeutic
therapeutic abortion
therapeutical
therapeutically
therapeutic boarding school
therapeutic index
therapeuticize
therapeutic touch
therapeutic use exemption
therapeutic vaccine
therapeutic window
thermotherapeutic
untherapeutic
urotherapeutic
vegetotherapeutic
virotherapeutic
zootherapeutic
Related terms: therapeutical
therapeutics
therapist
therapy