medicative

English

Etymology

From medicate +‎ -ive.

Adjective

medicative (comparative more medicative, superlative most medicative)

1. Medicinal; acting like a medicine.

Derived terms

• self-medicative

References

• “medicative”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.