cathartic
C1CEFR level
42/100Rarity: uncommon
TechnicalRegister
General adjective
Providing psychological relief through the open expression of strong emotions.
Writing about the loss proved unexpectedly cathartic for her.
Medicine adjective
Producing a strong purging effect on the bowels.
A cathartic agent was given to hasten elimination of the ingested toxin.
Rarity runs from 0 (a word everyone knows) to 100 (almost never seen outside specialist or literary writing). Level is the word's real difficulty on the CEFR scale, from A1 to C2.
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