therapeutic
/ˌθɛɹ.əˈpju.tɪk/
Word Rarity
Rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 3.85 in modern English
18
Scrabble Score
11
Letters
4
Syllables
9
Unique Chars
Meaning
adj
Having a positive effect on the body or mind.
noun
A therapeutic agent
Example Sentences
- "“We have been working on nanomachines over the past decade,” Joseph Wang, chairman of nanoengineering at UCSD, said. “One of the challenges we considered is to deliver therapeutic cargo deep."
- "Medicine is justly distributed into prophylactic, or the art of preserving health, and therapeutic, or the art of restoring it."
- "His music is very therapeutic when you listen to it."
Etymology
From Middle English terapeucia, 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”).
Origin
Word Breakdown
- Root: terapeucia, therapeuticus, θεραπευτικός
Regional Pronunciation
- American English: /ˌθɛɹ.əˈpju.tɪk/
- British English: /ˌθɛɹ.əˈpjuː.tɪk/
Inflected Forms
more therapeutic (comparative)
most therapeutic (superlative)
therapeutick (alternative, obsolete)
therapeutics (plural)