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Synonyms of palliative in English:

palliative


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adjective

1‘the role of these drugs is essentially palliative’

SYNONYMS
soothing, alleviating, sedative, calmative, calming
rare alleviative, alleviatory, lenitive, demulcent, assuasive, mitigatory, mitigative, paregoric

noun

1‘antibiotics and palliatives’

SYNONYMS
painkiller, analgesic, pain reliever, sedative, tranquillizer, anodyne, calmative, opiate, bromide
rare lenitive, demulcent, mitigative, paregoric