Remedy

Pronunciation

• US IPA: /ˈɹɛmÉ™di/

Origin

From Middle English remedie, from Old French *remedie, remede, from Latin remedium ("a remedy, cure"), from re- ("again") + mederi ("to heal").

Full definition of remedy

Noun

1. Something that corrects or counteracts.
2. (legal) The legal means to recover a right or to prevent or obtain redress for a wrong.
3. A medicine, application, or treatment that relieves or cures a disease.
• 1856: Gustave Flaubert, Madame Bovary, Part III Chapter X, translated by Eleanor Marx-AvelingHe said to himself that no doubt they would save her; the doctors would discover some remedy surely. He remembered all the miraculous cures he had been told about. Then she appeared to him dead. She was there; before his eyes, lying on her back in the middle of the road. He reined up, and the hallucination disappeared.

Derived terms

• remediless

Verb

1. (transitive) To provide or serve as a remedy for.
• 1748. David Hume. Enquiries concerning the human understanding and concerning the principles of moral. London: Oxford University Press, 1973. § 27.Nor is geometry, when taken into the assistance of natural philosophy, ever able to remedy this defect,

Synonyms

• redress
• help
• correct
• cure

Related terms

• remediable
• remedial