relief

Meaning of relief

noun
  1. The removal of stress or discomfort.
    I sighed with relief when I found out that my daughter hadn't got lost, but was waiting for me at home.
  2. The feeling associated with the removal of stress or discomfort.
  3. Release from a post or duty, as when replaced by another.
  4. The person who takes over a shift for another.
    Officer Schmidt can finally go home because his relief has arrived.
  5. Aid or assistance offered in time of need.
  6. Court-ordered compensation, aid, or protection, a redress.
  7. A lowering of a tax through special provisions; tax relief.
  8. A certain fine or composition paid by the heir of a tenant upon the death of the ancestor.
noun
  1. A type of sculpture or other artwork in which shapes or figures protrude from a flat background.
  2. The apparent difference in elevation in the surface of a painting or drawing made noticeable by a variation in light or color.
  3. The difference of elevations on a surface.
    the relief on that part of the Earth's surface
  4. The supposed projection of a charge from the surface of a field, indicated by shading on the sinister and lower sides.
adjective
  1. (of a surface) Characterized by surface inequalities.
  2. Of or used in letterpress.

Information about relief

  • The plural form of relief is: reliefs.
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Hyphenation of relief

re-lief

  • It consists of 2 syllables and 6 chars.
  • relief is a word disyllabic because it has two syllables

relief synonyms

Meaning alleviation:

alleviation, assuagement

Meaning ease:

ease

Meaning stand-in:

substitute, reliever, backup

Meaning succor:

succor, ministration

Meaning respite:

respite, rest

Meaning easing:

easing, moderation, easement, alleviation

Meaning relievo:

relievo, rilievo, embossment

Meaning :

liss, texture, topography, embossing

Translation of relief

Anagrams of relief

ferlie, Leifer, liefer, refile, Reifel

Words that rhyme with relief

Lief, lief, Alief, Prelief, belief, cobelief, demirelief, disbelief, misbelief, nonbelief, outrelief, overbelief, photorelief, prebelief, rebelief, semirelief, superbelief, unbelief, enlief

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