Definition of Cathartic

Cathartic

Alt. of Catharical

A medicine that promotes alvine discharges; a purge; a purgative of moderate activity.

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Cathartic Quotations

Being so honest in my writing is cathartic.
Brian Molko

Music's always been really cathartic. It's the best drug for me to get away from the everyday pressures just for a second via a good song.
Ville Valo

It's incredibly fun to play someone that you don't like. It exorcises your own demons in a way. It's cathartic. We all have things that we don't like about ourselves, little things. And I get to amplify those things and put them out there. It's fun and it has a cleansing effect.
Ed Helms

I do find acting cathartic.
Francesca Annis

I do like to write nasty songs. It's a useful weapon to have, and it's cathartic as well, because I create art out of anger, something positive out of something negative.
Lisa Marie Presley

Mostly singing was cathartic, writing was cathartic, therapeutic. I don't think I had a goal, particularly, to sing or put it out there for anybody.
Lisa Marie Presley

It was my angry, Dickensian novel, I suppose. It was cathartic - I expended a lot of frustration on that one.
Richard Helms

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Cathartic Translations

cathartic in French is abstergent
cathartic in Italian is lustrale

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