rehabilitative

English

Etymology

Etymology tree

English rehabilitate

Proto-Indo-European *-wós

Proto-Indo-European *-iHwósder.

Latin -īvus

Old French -ifbor.

Middle English -yf

English -ive

English rehabilitative

From rehabilitate + -ive.

Adjective

rehabilitative (comparative more rehabilitative, superlative most rehabilitative)

1. Tending to rehabilitate.
2. For the purpose of rehabilitation.
   • 2001, Bernard E. Harcourt, chapter 5, in Illusion of Order:

     The broken windows theory by no means advocates the more rehabilitative or psychotherapeutic remedies that characterize certain of the institutions described in Discipline and Punish.

Derived terms

• neurorehabilitative
• nonrehabilitative
• rehabilitatively
• rehabilitativeness