palliative

palliative is a 10-letter English word with 4 senses as adjective and noun in the JumbleFix dictionary. One common meaning is: Serving to palliate; serving to extenuate or mitigate. Face value is 15 in Scrabble and 19 in Words With Friends. Use the entries below when you need a playable sense, a nearby word, or another arrangement of the same letters.

10 letters · Scrabble 15 · Words With Friends 19 · 4 senses

Definitions

1. adjective. Serving to palliate; serving to extenuate or mitigate.
2. noun. That which palliates; a palliative agent.
3. noun. remedy that alleviates pain without curing

   Synonyms: alleviant, alleviator

4. adjective. moderating pain or sorrow by making it easier to bear

   Synonyms: alleviative, alleviatory, lenitive, mitigative, mitigatory

Synonyms

alleviant, alleviator, alleviative, alleviatory, lenitive, mitigative, mitigatory

Common word forms

palliatives, palliatively

Words from these letters

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