palliative

Meaning of palliative

noun
  1. Something that palliates, particularly a palliative medicine.
    The radiation and chemotherapy were only palliatives.
adjective
  1. Serving to palliate; serving to extenuate or mitigate.
  2. Minimising the progression of a disease and relieving undesirable symptoms for as long as possible, rather than attempting to cure the (usually incurable) disease.

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Hyphenation of palliative

pal-lia-tive

  • It consists of 3 syllables and 10 chars.
  • palliative is a word trisyllabic because it has three syllables

palliative synonyms

Meaning alleviative:

alleviative, alleviatory, lenitive, mitigative, mitigatory

Meaning alleviant:

alleviant, alleviator

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