Therapeutic

Pronunciation

• enPR: thÄ•r'É™-pyoÍžoʹtÄ­k

Alternative forms

• therapeutick obsolete

Origin

From New Latin therapeuticus ("curing, healing"), from Ancient Greek θεραπευτικός (therapeutikos, "attentive, helpful, obliging, curative"), from θεραπευτής (therapeutēs, "one who waits on another, an attendant"), from θεραπεύω (therapeuō, "I wait on, attend, serve, cure").

Full definition of therapeutic

Adjective

1. Of, or relating to therapy.
2. Having a positive effect on the body or mind.
• Sir Thomas BrowneTherapeutic or curative physic.
• Isaac WattsMedicine is justly distributed into prophylactic, or the art of preserving health, and therapeutic, or the art of restoring it.

Synonyms

• therapeutical
• curative
• remedial

Related terms

• therapeutical
• therapist
• therapy