therapeutic

• therapeutick (obsolete)

From New Latin therapeuticus (“curing, healing”), from Ancient Greek θεραπευτικός (therapeutikós, “attentive, helpful, obliging, curative”), from θεραπευτής (therapeutḗs, “one who waits on another, an attendant”), from θεραπεύω (therapeúō, “I wait on, attend, serve, cure”).

• enPR: thĕr'ə-pyo͞oʹtĭk
  • (UK) IPA^(key): /ˌθɛɹ.əˈpjuː.tɪk/,
  • (US, Canada) IPA^(key): /ˌθɛɹ.əˈpju.tɪk/, [ˌθɛɹ.əˈpju.ɾɪk],

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  • (General Australian) IPA^(key): /ˌθeɹ.əˈpjʉː.tɪk/, [ˌθeɹ.əˈpjʉː.ɾɪk],

therapeutic (comparative more therapeutic, superlative most therapeutic)

1. Of, or relating to therapy.
2. Having a positive effect on the body or mind.
   • 2009, Isha McKenzie-Mavinga, Black Issues in the Therapeutic Process:

     His music is very therapeutic when you listen to it.

   • 1725, Isaac Watts, Logick: Or, The Right Use of Reason in the Enquiry after Truth, […], 2nd edition, London: […] John Clark and Richard Hett, […], Emanuel Matthews, […], and Richard Ford, […], published 1726, →OCLC:

     Medicine is justly distributed into prophylactic, or the art of preserving health, and therapeutic, or the art of restoring it.

• therapeutical
• curative
• remedial

therapeutic (plural therapeutics)

1. (medicine) A therapeutic agent

• “therapeutic”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.
• “therapeutic”, in The Century Dictionary […], New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911, →OCLC.
• “therapeutic”, in OneLook Dictionary Search.

therapeutic (not comparable)

1. therapeutic (pertaining to therapy)

• therapia