rehabilitative

adj

Etymology

From rehabilitate + -ive.

  1. derived from rehabilitō
  2. learned borrowing from rehabilitātus
  3. suffixed as rehabilitative — “rehabilitate + ive

Definitions

  1. Tending to rehabilitate.

  2. For the purpose of rehabilitation.

    • The broken windows theory by no means advocates the more rehabilitative or psychotherapeutic remedies that characterize certain of the institutions described in Discipline and Punish.

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