Associations to the word «Restorative»

Wiktionary

RESTORATIVE, noun. Something with restoring properties.
RESTORATIVE, noun. (euphemistic) An alcoholic drink, especially with tonic.
RESTORATIVE, adjective. Serving to restore.
RESTORATIVE JUSTICE, noun. (legal) Any of several forms of justice that attempts to repair the harm done to the victim, sometimes by making the offender make restitution.

Dictionary definition

RESTORATIVE, noun. A medicine that strengthens and invigorates.
RESTORATIVE, noun. A device for treating injury or disease.
RESTORATIVE, adjective. Tending to impart new life and vigor to; "the renewing warmth of the sunshine".
RESTORATIVE, adjective. Promoting recuperation; "recuperative powers"; "strongly recuperative remedies"; "restorative effects of exercise".

Wise words

Words - so innocent and powerless as they are, as standing in a dictionary, how potent for good and evil they become in the hands of one who knows how to combine them.
Nathaniel Hawthorne