palliative
noun
Key Types & categories Parts & wholes Related & opposite
- Word type
- noun
- verb
- adjective
- adverb
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Senses
Sense 1 noun
remedy that alleviates pain without curing
Types & categories
- curative hypernym
Related & opposite
Sense 2 adjective
moderating pain or sorrow by making it easier to bear
Related & opposite
- lenitive derivation
- palliative derivation
- relieve derivation
- mitigate derivation
- palliate derivation
- moderating similar to
Table view of this graph
| Sense | Relation | Group | Word |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | derivation | Related & opposite | relieve |
| 1 | derivation | Related & opposite | lenitive |
| 1 | hypernym | Types & categories | curative |
| 2 | derivation | Related & opposite | lenitive |
| 2 | derivation | Related & opposite | palliative |
| 2 | derivation | Related & opposite | relieve |
| 2 | derivation | Related & opposite | mitigate |
| 2 | derivation | Related & opposite | palliate |
| 2 | similar to | Related & opposite | moderating |