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REHABILITATIVE
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Dictionary entry overview: What does rehabilitative mean?
• REHABILITATIVE (adjective)
The adjective REHABILITATIVE has 2 senses:
1. designed to accomplish rehabilitation
2. helping to restore to good condition
Familiarity information: REHABILITATIVE used as an adjective is rare.
Dictionary entry details
Sense 1
Meaning:
Designed to accomplish rehabilitation
Context example:
rehabilitative treatment
Antonym:
punitive (inflicting punishment)
Derivation:
rehabilitate (help to readapt, as to a former state of health or good repute)
Sense 2
Meaning:
Helping to restore to good condition
Synonyms:
reconstructive; rehabilitative
Context example:
rehabilitative exercises
Similar:
constructive (constructing or tending to construct or improve or promote development)
Derivation:
rehabilitate (restore to a state of good condition or operation)
Context examples
An individual that lives at a healthcare facility that provides rehabilitative, restorative, and/or ongoing skilled nursing care to patients or residents in need of assistance with activities of daily living.
(Long-term Facility Resident, NCI Thesaurus)
A healthcare facility that provides rehabilitative, restorative, and/or ongoing skilled nursing care to patients or residents in need of assistance with activities of daily living.
(Long-Term Care Facility, NCI Thesaurus)
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