therapeutic

English

From New Latin therapeuticus (“curing, healing”), from Ancient Greek θεραπευτικός (therapeutikós, “attentive, helpful, obliging, curative”), from θεραπευτής (therapeutḗs, “one who waits on another, an attendant”), from θεραπεύω (therapeúō, “I wait on, attend, serve, cure”).

enPR: thĕr'ə-pyo͞oʹtĭk
- (UK) IPA^(key): /ˌθɛɹ.əˈpjuː.tɪk/,
- (US, Canada) IPA^(key): /ˌθɛɹ.əˈpju.tɪk/, [ˌθɛɹ.əˈpju.ɾɪk],
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- (General Australian) IPA^(key): /ˌθeɹ.əˈpjʉː.tɪk/, [ˌθeɹ.əˈpjʉː.ɾɪk],

therapeutic (comparative more therapeutic, superlative most therapeutic)

Of, or relating to therapy.
Having a positive effect on the body or mind.
- 2009, Isha McKenzie-Mavinga, Black Issues in the Therapeutic Process:
  His music is very therapeutic when you listen to it.
- 1725, Isaac Watts, Logick: Or, The Right Use of Reason in the Enquiry after Truth, […], 2nd edition, London: […] John Clark and Richard Hett, […], Emanuel Matthews, […], and Richard Ford, […], published 1726, →OCLC:
  Medicine is justly distributed into prophylactic, or the art of preserving health, and therapeutic, or the art of restoring it.

of, or relating to therapy

having a positive effect on the body or mind

therapeutic (plural therapeutics)

therapeutic (not comparable)