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RECUPERATIVE
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Dictionary entry overview: What does recuperative mean?
• RECUPERATIVE (adjective)
The adjective RECUPERATIVE has 1 sense:
1. promoting recuperation
Familiarity information: RECUPERATIVE used as an adjective is very rare.
Dictionary entry details
Sense 1
Meaning:
Promoting recuperation
Synonyms:
recuperative; restorative
Context example:
restorative effects of exercise
Similar:
healthful (conducive to good health of body or mind)
Derivation:
recuperate (get over an illness or shock)
recuperate (restore to good health or strength)
Context examples
With his usual recuperative energy, he went on: "Come. If there be no way open to get in, we must make one. Time is all in all to us now."
(Dracula, by Bram Stoker)
It is wonderful, however, what intellectual recuperative power lunatics have, for within a few minutes he stood up quite calmly and looked around him.
(Dracula, by Bram Stoker)
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