adj
Meaning 1
Serving to palliate; serving to extenuate or mitigate.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
No example sentence was provided for this meaning.
Meaning relationships
Synonyms: none provided
Antonyms: none provided
Standard Lemma guide
palliative
Definitions and examples are grouped by meaning. Pronunciation, history, word forms, translations, descendants, synonyms, antonyms, derived terms, and related words appear whenever the source provides them.
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Pronunciation
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UK: /ˈpælɪətɪv/
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General-American: /ˈpælieɪtɪv/
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General-American: /ˈpæliətɪv/
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adj
Meaning 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.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Topics: medicine, sciences
No example sentence was provided for this meaning.
Meaning relationships
Synonyms: none provided
Antonyms: none provided
noun
Meaning 3
Something that palliates, particularly a palliative medicine.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Topics: medicine, sciences
Examples
- The radiation and chemotherapy were only palliatives.
Meaning relationships
Synonyms: none provided
Antonyms: none provided
adjective satellite
Meaning 4
moderating pain or sorrow by making it easier to bear
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
No example sentence was provided for this meaning.
Meaning relationships
Synonyms: alleviative, alleviatory, lenitive, mitigative, mitigatory
Antonyms: none provided
noun
Meaning 5
remedy that alleviates pain without curing
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
No example sentence was provided for this meaning.
Meaning relationships
Synonyms: alleviant, alleviator
Antonyms: none provided
Broader terms: remedy, curative, cure, therapeutic
History
Etymology
From Middle French palliatif, from New Latin *palliātīvus, from Medieval Latin palliō (“to cloak”), from Latin pallium (“a cloak”).
Across languages
Translations
33 source translations are retained for this English entry.
- Arabic: مُلَطِّف (mulaṭṭif) — reducing progression and relieving symptoms
- Arabic: مُخَفِّف (muḵaffif) — reducing progression and relieving symptoms
- Arabic: مُسَكِّن (musakkin) — reducing progression and relieving symptoms
- Bulgarian: облекчаващ (oblekčavašt) — reducing progression and relieving symptoms
- Catalan: pal·liatiu — reducing progression and relieving symptoms
- Chinese Mandarin: 緩和的 /缓和的 (huǎnhé de) — reducing progression and relieving symptoms
- Chinese Mandarin: 姑息的 (gūxī de, gūxí de) — reducing progression and relieving symptoms
- Czech: paliativní — reducing progression and relieving symptoms
- Czech: zmírňující — reducing progression and relieving symptoms
- Czech: útěšný — reducing progression and relieving symptoms
- Czech: úlevný — reducing progression and relieving symptoms
- Finnish: palliatiivinen — reducing progression and relieving symptoms
- Finnish: oireita lievittävä — reducing progression and relieving symptoms
- French: palliatif — reducing progression and relieving symptoms
- German: palliativ — reducing progression and relieving symptoms
- German: beschönigend — reducing progression and relieving symptoms
- German: lindernd — reducing progression and relieving symptoms
- Greek: καταπραϋντικός (katapraÿntikós) — reducing progression and relieving symptoms
- Hebrew: מקל (makel) — reducing progression and relieving symptoms
- Ido: paliativa — reducing progression and relieving symptoms
- Indonesian: paliatif — reducing progression and relieving symptoms
- Italian: palliativo — reducing progression and relieving symptoms
- Japanese: 一時的に緩和する (ichijiteki ni kanwa suru) — reducing progression and relieving symptoms
- Kazakh: паллиативтік (palliativtık) — reducing progression and relieving symptoms
- Korean: 완화 (wanhwa) — reducing progression and relieving symptoms
- Polish: paliatywny — reducing progression and relieving symptoms
- Portuguese: paliativo — reducing progression and relieving symptoms
- Russian: паллиати́вный (palliatívnyj) — reducing progression and relieving symptoms
- Spanish: paliativo — reducing progression and relieving symptoms
- Swedish: lindrande — reducing progression and relieving symptoms
- Swedish: palliativ — reducing progression and relieving symptoms
- Turkish: palyatif — reducing progression and relieving symptoms
- Ukrainian: паліати́вний (paliatývnyj) — reducing progression and relieving symptoms
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