Definitions
American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition
- adj. Tending or serving to palliate.
- adj. Relieving or soothing the symptoms of a disease or disorder without effecting a cure.
- n. One that palliates, especially a palliative drug or medicine.
Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
- Palliating; extenuating; serving to extenuate by excuses or favorable representation.
- Mitigating or alleviating, as pain or disease.
- n. That which extenuates: as, a palliative of guilt.
- n. That which mitigates, alleviates, or abates, as the violence of pain, disease, or other evil.
Wiktionary
- adj. medicine Minimising the progression of a disease and relieving undesirable symptoms for as long as possible, rather than attempting to cure the (usually incurable) disease.
- n. medicine Something that palliates, particularly a palliative medicine.
GNU Webster's 1913
- adj. Serving to palliate; serving to extenuate, mitigate, or alleviate.
- n. That which palliates; a palliative agent.
WordNet 3.0
- n. remedy that alleviates pain without curing
- adj. moderating pain or sorrow by making it easier to bear
Etymologies
- From New Latin *palliativus, from Medieval Latin palliare ("to cloak"), from Latin pallium ("a cloak"). (Wiktionary)
Examples
“She avoided the phrase palliative care because care, she wrote, “is a soft word” that would never win respectability in the medical world.”
“By what we term palliative treatment alone more cures are effected than by the old process of treatment with nitric acid.”
“Rather than shirking from the term palliative care, they have thrown their weight and credibility behind it in a further effort to educate clinicians and consumers about palliative care and to reduce stigma associated with the term.”
“The getting-over-it approach is to continue to actively work to reduce and debunk the misconceptions and stigma associated with the term palliative care.”
“She founded the palliative medical field of music -- thanatology and the Chalice of Repose Project, which trains teachers in palliative music vigils with the dying.”
The Huffington Post: Alison Rose Levy: What Would You Do If You Did Not Fear Death?
“Most of the patients they see in palliative care was cancer patients, but they are now seeing more cardiovascular problems, respiratory cases, HIV/AIDS, and end-stage cardiac or renal disease.”
“There is a combined program with Critical Care Medicine in palliative care.”
“Aside from my life being turned upside down with my mother having been ill and now with my sister-in-law being in palliative care in Halifax, things have been somewhat topsy-turvy.”
“This would be a short-term palliative to get the French and Americans past the next election.”
“But the wider positive for stocks and the economy is that falling housing starts are a longer-term palliative for the bloated housing market.”
The Wall Street Journal: Home Economics: Fall in Starts Is Good
Lists
These user-created lists contain the word ‘palliative’.
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Iaan
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my fab list
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good,everyday use
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Types of Reasoning
types of "reasoning"
deductive, reductive, seductive, abductive, photoconductive, reproductive, conductive, obstructive, introductive, productive, reconstructive, subductive and 4 more...
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November
irresolute, obsequious, truculent, palliative, salvo, troubadour, elocutionist, pseudepigraphy, abattoir, repudiate, impugn, vitiated and 3 more...
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All The Words
I enjoy collecting words, for I have no fear of them ever running out.
tatterdemalion, panopticon, idioglossia, hypnagogue, hypnopomp, defenestration, anacoluthon, scofflaw, affront, edifying, palimpsest, naufrage and 476 more...
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MiaLuthien's list ♥
gambit, prehensile, coquetry, impunity, genuflect, ensconce, clavicle, delude, beget, castigate, life caching, convoluted and 478 more...
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jaradgiese's Words
paronomasia, ostensible, insouciant, sobriquet, burlesque, insalubrious, apotheosis, hyperbole, connubial, felicity, florid, conurbation and 642 more...
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Verba Dilecta
delectable, notate, pauciloquy, paucity, pauciloquent, paucify, interscapilium, uropygium, inferna, nota, equipollent, prepollent and 677 more...
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Good Words
fenestering, cetic, immanent, quickening, archetypal, shibboleth, soma, wetware, heritable, Apotheosis, halcyon, cellar door and 482 more...
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The Sog Collection
My big word list.
chaos, flaccid, empirical, flotsam, cacophony, grumble, assuage, awe, romance, mortality, coalesce, fortuitous and 3282 more...
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ktrey's wordlist
Words that I like.
Many may be lexicographically impotent due to a lack of citations and definition. Hopefully I'll be able to rectify this eventually.velleity, dispositive, bloviate, bibulous, fungible, concupiscence, avuncular, carnaptious, thrawn, hypocoristic, diegesis, lagniappe and 928 more...
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There's a word for that?
temerity, tacit, froward, faineant, caterwaul, menagerie, ennui, sine qua non, lissom, multifarious, laconic, katzenjammer and 240 more...
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List Erine
cool mint antiseptic
shalom, cattywampus, bourgeoisie, aerophile, traverse, grotto, epicurean, ex cathedra, nautilus, epitaph, lathe, continuum and 753 more...
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madamepsychosis's Words
mollify, salubrious, prandial, coup de grace, ineluctable, metempsychosis, pedant, conatus, oeuvre, laconic, solipsism, vapid and 265 more...
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drseatbelt's Words
bilious, centenarian, droll, palliative, cortege, stultify, polysemy, suffuse, lambent, timorous, aegis, modicum and 236 more...
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