Remedial means meant to put right a fault or a weakness. Remedial work, remedial classes, remedial action.
In building it is the standard word for repairs that fix a defect. In education it has become a word to avoid, since remedial classes labelled the children in them, and schools now say support or catch-up instead.
1adjectiveremedialMeant to put right a fault or a weakness.
“The school offers remedial classes for children who struggle with reading.”
remedial is a quality.
Latin remedialis comes from remedium, a cure, from re- plus mederi, to heal.
Latin
remediālis
English, today
remedial
From Latin remediālis. by surface analysis, remedy + -al.
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