Words and phrases that have a meaning related to cathartic: (183 results)
Often used in the same context:
revelatory, exhilarating, invigorating, riveting, uplifting, poignant, joyous, joyful, surreal, emotional, bittersweet, painful, traumatic, harrowing, visceral, redemptive, pleasurable, humbling, euphoric, enlightening, satisfying, excruciating, engrossing, disorienting, torturous, sorrowful, introspective, maudlin, enjoyable, meditative, spellbinding, elegiac, depressing, captivating, melodramatic, heartfelt, melancholy, unnerving, hilarious, poetic, autobiographical, rewarding, heartrending, singable, heartwarming, anticlimactic, edifying, tearjerking, uncontrived, heartbreaking, incantatory, stressful, contemplative, suspenseful, melancholic, goosebump, uproarious, rollicking, ennobling, mawkish, mesmerizing, memorable, humiliating, essayistic, primal, goose bump, quavery, unaffecting, bearable, exhausting, terrifying, discomforting, epiphanic, hypnotic, mirthful, overwrought, dostoevskian, instructive, resonant, rhythmless, implosive, unendurable, masochistic, tedious, dispiriting, unforgettable, orgasmic, rapturous, soothing, enthralling, humerous, jarring, overdetermined, recriminatory, eeriest, wrenching, amusing, blissful, haunting, proustian, tuneful, ruminative, emetic, purgative, cathartics, laxative, purgatives, diuretic, antiseptic, aperient, narcotic, astringent, relaxant, sedative, tonic, anaesthetic, anodyne, catharsis, diuretics, laxatives, purgation, curative, efficacious, restorative, relieving, transformative, purificatory, preservative, stimulative, altering, educative, preventative, therapeutical, antiphlogistic, suppressive, anthelmintic
More specific:
aloes, bitter aloes, castor oil, epsom salts, magnesium hydroxide, milk of magnesia, rochelle powder, seidlitz powder, seidlitz powders
Appears in the definition of:
alexandrian senna, alexandria senna, calomel, cassia acutifolia, cassia augustifolia, cassia marginata, cassia roxburghii, catharsis, common spindle tree, convolvulus scammonia, croton oil, euonymus europaeus, glauber's salt, glauber's salts, horse cassia, indian senna, katharsis, laxative, mercurous chloride, purgation, rochelle powder, rochelle salt, rochelle salts, scammony, seidlitz powder, seidlitz powders, senna alexandrina, tinnevelly senna, true senna
More general:
medicament, medication, medicinal drug, medicine
Synonyms:
Also try:evacuant, healthful, physic, psychotherapeutic, releasing
— Nouns for cathartic: effect, experience, method, release, action, pills, function, effects, process, colon, value, more...
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