- 1[usually before noun] designed to help treat an illness the therapeutic properties of herbs
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- 2helping you to relax Painting can be very therapeutic.
NAmE//ˌθɛrəˈpyut̮ɪkli//
adverb Apparently, hypnosis was used therapeutically by the Romans.See therapeutic in the Oxford Advanced Learner's DictionaryCheck pronunciation: therapeutic