Meaning

Tending to or intended to repair..

Definitions by Sense

1. Tending to or intended to repair.
2. Of, pertaining to, or being a reparation.
3. (rare) That which repairs.

Example Sentences

reparative surgery

Men shal giue the patient medicines confortatiue and reparatiue, that restore the spirites, and bringeth them againe.

To go to law for revenge, we are simply forbidden, that is, to returne evill for evill; and therefore all those suits, which are for vindictive sentences, not for reparative, are directly criminall.

[…] garments had come to her which were old and worn, bearing unmistakable signs of Lotta’s coarse but reparative energies — raiment against which her feminine niceness would have rebelled, had it been possible for her, in her misfortunes, to indulge her feminine niceness.

They made up, saying all the reparative things, but it went only so far. Andrea assured him that everything was forgiven, except when he hung up and went inside it didn’t feel as if everything, or even anything, had been forgiven.

reparative justice

Intended for offenders of misdemeanor or nonviolent felony crimes, the Reparative Probation Program directly involves community members meeting face to face with offenders to negotiate a “reparative agreement” that specifies how offenders will make reparation to their victims and other community members.

[…] social media was ablaze for days in anticipation of this month’s Atlantic cover story arguing in favor of reparative payments to African-Americans for state-sanctioned slavery and segregation.

Word Forms

• more reparative
• most reparative
• reparatives

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When Should You Use Reparative?

Use reparative when its meaning, tone and grammar fit the full sentence. A synonym is not always a direct replacement.

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