Cathartic

Quick meaning: Cathartic is an adjective meaning Purgative; inducing mental or physical catharsis.

Meaning

Purgative; inducing mental or physical catharsis.

More Meanings

1. That which releases emotional tension, especially after an overwhelming experience.
2. (medicine) A laxative.

Example Sentences

Shaving, my favorite activity, is very cathartic.

I don’t know if [Kamala] Harris found writing 107 Days cathartic, but reading it certainly wasn’t.

For some, Saturday’s protests were cathartic, a show of force and solidarity by progressives who had struggled to pick themselves up from last November’s election defeat.

The disease was regarded as pneumonia so far advanced that suppuration seemed to have supervened; bleeding, blisters, expectorants, and cathartics diminished the symptoms; the pulse continued frequent, hard, full, but always regular.

Word Forms

• cathartick
• cathartics

Synonyms for cathartic

Depending on context, synonyms include emotional, physic, aperient, healthful, purgative, laxative.

Related Words

Related dictionary entries include aperient, laxative, purgative, psychotherapeutic, emotional, releasing.

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