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medicinal adj. healing, remedial, therapeutic, curative, restorative,
sanative; medical, iatric(al), Medicine roborant, analeptic,
alexipharmic: The doctor prescribed a medicinal ointment for
the rash.
medicine n. medication, medicament, remedy, drug, pharmaceutical,
prescription, Archaic physic; nostrum, panacea, cure-all: There
is no medicine that can cure your affliction.
mediocre adj. middling, indifferent, ordinary, commonplace, average,
medium, everyday, US garden-variety, run-of-the-mill,
pedestrian, undistinguished, uninspired, unimaginative,
unexceptional, tolerable, fair, not (that or too) good, not bad,
second-rate, third-rate, inferior, poor, Brit common-or-garden
variety, US garden-variety, Colloq so so, fair to middling,
nothing to brag or to write home about, no great shakes: It was
a mediocre play, and we couldn't be bothered to sit through it.
meditate v. 1 reflect, think, muse, ponder, study, ruminate, cogitate,
contemplate, cerebrate, be lost in thought, be in a brown study:
Please don't interrupt me while I'm meditating. 2 Often,
meditate on or upon. consider, contemplate, mull over, reflect
on or upon, ponder on or over, chew over, plan, scheme, devise,
design, conceive, frame, think up, have in mind: She was
meditating revenge, while I was meditating on how to discourage
her.
meditative
adj. thoughtful, pensive, contemplative, reflective, studious,
cogitative, excogitative, abstracted, rapt, engrossed, lost or
deep in thought, ruminative, brooding: She suddenly stopped
talking and became meditative, looking at me with a curious
expression.
medium adj. 1 average, middle, mid, medial, median, normal, standard,
usual, everyday, ordinary; mid-sized: His wife has an estate
car of medium size - nothing extravagant. 2 See mediocre,
above.
--n. 3 average, middle, mid-point, compromise, centre, mean,
norm, mediocrity: Instead of going to extremes, try for the
happy medium. 4 atmosphere, environment, ambience or ambiance,