Usually means: In a manner to correct errors.
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We found 11 dictionaries that define the word correctively:

General (8 matching dictionaries)
  1. correctively: Merriam-Webster
  2. correctively: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. correctively: Collins English Dictionary
  4. correctively: Vocabulary.com
  5. correctively: Wordnik
  6. correctively: Wiktionary
  7. correctively: Dictionary.com
  8. correctively: TheFreeDictionary.com

Business (1 matching dictionary)
  1. correctively: Legal dictionary

Medicine (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. correctively: Merriam-Webster Medical Dictionary
  2. correctively: Medical dictionary

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Definitions from Wiktionary (correctively)

▸ adverb:  In a corrective manner; so as to correct something.

Similar:
correctingly, hypercorrectively, remedially, correctionally, reparatively, reformatively, correctly, curatively, hypercorrectly, reformingly, more...

Opposite:
preventively, proactively, preemptively

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Similar:
correctingly, hypercorrectively, remedially, correctionally, reparatively, reformatively, correctly, curatively, hypercorrectly, reformingly, more...

Opposite:
preventively, proactively, preemptively



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