alleviative, alleviatory, lenitive, mitigative, mitigatory, palliative
(adjective) moderating pain or sorrow by making it easier to bear
palliative, alleviant, alleviator
(noun) remedy that alleviates pain without curing
Source: WordNet® 3.1
palliative (comparative more palliative, superlative most palliative)
Serving to palliate; serving to extenuate or mitigate.
(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.
palliative (plural palliatives)
(medicine) Something that palliates, particularly a palliative medicine.
Source: Wiktionary
Pal"li*a*tive, a. Etym: [Cf. F. palliatif.]
Definition: Serving to palliate; serving to extenuate or mitigate.
Pal"li*a*tive, n.
Definition: That which palliates; a palliative agent. Sir W. Scott.
Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition
5 February 2025
(noun) activity involved in maintaining something in good working order; “he wrote the manual on car care”
The first coffee-house in Mecca dates back to the 1510s. The beverage was in Turkey by the 1530s. It appeared in Europe circa 1515-1519 and was introduced to England by 1650. By 1675 the country had more than 3,000 coffee houses, and coffee had replaced beer as a breakfast drink.
