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Corrective vs Correctively - What's the difference?

corrective | correctively |

As an adjective corrective

is of or pertaining to correction; serving to correct.

As a noun corrective

is something that corrects or counteracts something, especially an injury or disability.

As an adverb correctively is

in a corrective manner; so as to correct something.

corrective

English

Adjective

(-)
  • Of or pertaining to correction; serving to correct
    • As the currents were changing rapidly, the captain had to make many corrective course changes .
  • Qualifying; limiting.
  • * Holdsworth
    • The Psalmist interposeth this corrective particle.

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • Something that corrects or counteracts something, especially an injury or disability
    • alkalies are correctives of acids
    penalties are correctives of immoral conduct
  • (obsolete) limitation; restriction
    • ----

    correctively

    English

    Adverb

    (en adverb)
  • In a corrective manner; so as to correct something.
  • * {{quote-news, year=2007, date=June 20, author=Melissa Clark, title=A Dish Whose Heart Longs for Spring, work=New York Times citation
    • , passage=I would throw in radishes, too, which would add a correctively spicy bite to keep things from getting too cloying. }}