therapeutic

CEFRB2

/ˌθɛɹ.əˈpjuː.tɪk/

adjective

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In plain English

  1. 01

    adjective

    Helping to treat illness or improve health.

  2. 02

    adjective

    Extra detail

    A therapeutic agent

Examples

  • Sweeping the floor is therapeutic for one's mind.

  • Mennad's stories are therapeutic.

At a glance

Sits at B2 on the CEFR scale

Senses
4
Parts of speech
1
Citations
3
Synonyms
3

Also pronounced

  • [ˌθeɹ.əˈpjʉː.ɾɪk]
  • [ˌθɛɹ.əˈpju.ɾɪk]

Deep Dive

adjective

Extra meanings

  1. Having a positive effect on the body or mind.

  2. Of, or relating to therapy.

More examples

In context

  • Medicine is justly distributed into prophylactic, or the art of preserving health, and therapeutic, or the art of restoring it.

  • “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.

  • His music is very therapeutic when you listen to it.

Synonyms

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Origin

adjective

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”).