English Online Dictionary. What means remedy? What does remedy mean?
English
Etymology
From Middle English remedie, from Old French *remedie, remede, from Latin remedium (“a remedy, cure”), from re- (“again”) + mederi (“to heal”). Doublet of remeid.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /ˈɹɛmədi/
- Hyphenation: rem‧e‧dy
Noun
remedy (plural remedies)
- Something that corrects or counteracts.
- (law) The legal means to recover a right or to prevent or obtain redress for a wrong.
- A medicine, application, or treatment that relieves or cures a disease.
- 1856: Gustave Flaubert, Madame Bovary, Part III Chapter X, translated by Eleanor Marx-Aveling
- He said to himself that no doubt they would save her; the doctors would discover some remedy surely. He remembered all the miraculous cures he had been told about. Then she appeared to him dead. She was there; before his eyes, lying on her back in the middle of the road. He reined up, and the hallucination disappeared.
- The accepted tolerance or deviation in fineness or weight in the production of gold coins etc.
Synonyms
- (Scottish contexts): remeid
Derived terms
Translations
Verb
remedy (third-person singular simple present remedies, present participle remedying, simple past and past participle remedied)
- (transitive) To provide or serve as a remedy for.
Synonyms
- redress
- help
- correct
- cure
- See also Thesaurus:repair
Translations
Related terms
- remediable
- remedial
Further reading
- “remedy”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.
- “remedy”, in The Century Dictionary […], New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911, →OCLC.
- “remedy”, in OneLook Dictionary Search.