Palliative

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  • adjective. Tending or serving to palliate.
  • adjective. Alleviating the symptoms of a disease or disorder, especially one that is terminal, when a cure is not available.
  • noun. One that palliates, especially a palliative drug or medicine.
    • The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
  • Palliating; extenuating; serving to extenuate by excuses or favorable representation.
  • Mitigating or alleviating, as pain or disease.
  • noun. That which extenuates: as, a palliative of guilt.
  • noun. That which mitigates, alleviates, or abates, as the violence of pain, disease, or other evil.
    • the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English
  • adjective. Serving to palliate; serving to extenuate, mitigate, or alleviate.
  • noun. That which palliates; a palliative agent.
    • Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License
  • adjective. Minimising the progression of a disease and relieving undesirable symptoms for as long as possible, rather than attempting to cure the (usually incurable) disease.
  • noun. Something that palliates, particularly a palliative medicine.
    • WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
  • noun. remedy that alleviates pain without curing
  • adjective. moderating pain or sorrow by making it easier to bear
    • Word Usage
    "She avoided the phrase palliative care because care, she wrote, “is a soft word” that would never win respectability in the medical world."
    Equivalent
    moderating  
    Hypernym
    Words that are more generic or abstract
    curative  cure  remedy  therapeutic  
    Same Context
    Words that are found in similar contexts
    analgesic  assuasive  b-3  corrective  curative  
    Synonym
    Words with the same meaning
    alleviating  alleviative  alleviator  allowance  altering  
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