palliative
Plural: palliatives
Noun
- remedy that alleviates pain without curing
- Something that palliates, particularly a palliative medicine.
Adjective Satellite
- moderating pain or sorrow by making it easier to bear
Adj
- Serving to palliate; serving to extenuate or mitigate.
- Minimising the progression of a disease and relieving undesirable symptoms for as long as possible, rather than attempting to cure the (usually incurable) disease.
Examples
- The radiation and chemotherapy were only palliatives.
Origin / Etymology
From Middle French palliatif, from New Latin *palliātīvus, from Medieval Latin palliō (“to cloak”), from Latin pallium (“a cloak”).
Synonyms
alleviant, alleviative, alleviator, alleviatory, lenitive, mitigative, mitigatory
Scrabble Score: 15
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