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Definitions: Palliative |
PalliativeAdjective1. Moderating pain or sorrow by making it easier to bear. Noun1. Remedy that alleviates pain without curing. Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
Date "palliative" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1657. (references) |
| Domain | Definitions |
Health | 1. affording relief, but not cure. 2. an alleviating medicine. (references) |
Medicine | A treatment given to relieve symptoms caused by fatal disease. Source: European Union. (references) |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
Synonyms: PalliativeSynonyms: alleviative (adj), alleviatory (adj), lenitive (adj), mitigative (adj), mitigatory (adj), alleviant (n), alleviator (n). (additional references) |
| Context | Synonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus). |
Moderation | Measure, juste milieu, golden mean, gr/ariston metron/gr moderator; lullaby, sedative, lenitive, demulcent, antispasmodic, carminative, laudanum; rose water, balm, poppy, opiate, anodyne, milk, opium, "poppy or mandragora"; wet blanket; palliative. |
Relief | Adjective: relieving; Verb: consolatory, soothing; assuaging, assuasive; balmy, balsamic; lenitive, palliative; anodyne; (remedial); curative. |
Remedy | Anthelmintic; antidote, antifebrile, antipoison, counterpoison, antitoxin, antispasmodic; bracer, faith cure, placebo; helminthagogue, lithagogue, pick-meup, stimulant, tonic; vermifuge, prophylactic, corrective, restorative; sedative; palliative; febrifuge; alterant, alterative; specific; antiseptic, emetic, analgesic, pain-killer, antitussive, antiinflammatory, antibiotic, antiviral, antifungal, carminative; Nepenthe, Mithridate. |
Adjective: remedial; restorative; corrective, palliative, healing; sanatory, sanative; prophylactic, preventative, immunizing; salutiferous; (salutary); medical, medicinal; therapeutic, chirurgical, epulotic, paregoric, tonic, corroborant, analeptic, balsamic, anodyne, hypnotic, neurotic, narcotic, sedative, lenitive, demulcent, emollient; depuratory; detersive, detergent; abstersive, disinfectant, febrifugal, alterative; traumatic, vulnerary. | |
Vindication | Extenuation; palliation, palliative; softening, mitigation. |
| Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus. | |
Crosswords: Palliative |
| English words defined with "palliative": Enantiopathic ♦ Palliatory. (references) |
| Specialty definitions using "palliative": Cyproterone ♦ halfway knowledge-based technology, half-way technology, Hospices ♦ Megestrol ♦ palliative therapy, palliative treatment. (references) |
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Peter De Vries | Confession is good for the soul only in the sense that a tweed coat is good for dandruff -- it is a palliative rather than a remedy. |
Sebastien-Roch Nicolas De Chamfort | Living is a sickness to which sleep provides relief every sixteen hours. It's a palliative. The remedy is death. |
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| Subject | Topic | Quote |
Health | Palliative treatment is appropriate for patients with symptomatic disease. (references) | |
For women with advanced-stage disease, critical issues include optimal radiotherapy techniques, whether chemotherapy or combined modality regimens improve outcome, the morbidity and benefit of salvage therapy for recurrent disease, and palliative treatment. (references) | ||
Children | Philippines | However, advocates for the rights of persons with disabilities contend that the law has been ineffective because implementing regulations are weak, funding is inadequate, and government programs are palliative rather than focused on integration. (references) |
Source: compiled by the editor from ICON Group International, Inc.; see credits. | ||
| "Palliative" is generally used as an adjective (general or positive) -- approximately 100.00% of the time. "Palliative" is used about 72 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted) |
| Parts of Speech | Percent | Usage per 100 Million Words | Rank in English |
| Adjective (general or positive) | 100% | 72 | 39,377 |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
Expressions using "palliative": Palliative Care ♦ palliative therapy ♦ palliative treatment. Additional references. | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. |
| The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com. |
| Expression | Frequency per Day |
palliative care | 212 |
palliative | 69 |
palliative medicine | 10 |
journal medicine palliative | 9 |
care journal palliative | 8 |
eater lotus palliative | 7 |
dust palliative | 7 |
palliative care nursing | 6 |
aromatherapy care in palliative | 6 |
brenna cancer care liepold palliative | 5 |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| Language | Translations for "palliative"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | |
Albanian | zbutës (buffer, emollient, extenuatory, lenitive, mitigatory, propitiation, propitiator, propitiatory, relaxing, tamer), qetësues (anodyne, assuagement, balmy, bland, calming, comforting, demulcent, depressant, drug, easeful, lenitive, pacificatory, painkiller, paregoric, reposeful, restful, sedative, soother, soothing, tranquilizer), lehtësues (alleviating, assuaging, emollient, labor saving, labour saving, lenitive, mitigating, soothing). (various references) | |
Arabic | ملطف (demulcent, lenitive, moderator, soothing), مسكن الألم (analgesic, pain killer, tranquilizer), مسكن (abode, anodyne, apartment, assuasive, demulcent, easing, habitation, home, house, lenitive, lodging, quarters, relieving, residence, sedative, soothing). (various references) | |
Bulgarian | успокоителен (calmative, comfortable, comforting, composing, emollient, grateful, lenitive, placatory, reposeful, restful, sedative), оправдателен факт, оправдателен (apologetic, apologetical, exculpatory, excusatory, exonerative, justifiable, justificative, justificatory, vindicatory), палиативен, палиатив (half measure), извинителен факт, извинителен (apologetic, apologetical, excusatory, pardonable, venial). (various references) | |
Chinese | "' (Allay, Allayed, Allaying, Alleviate, Alleviated, Alleviating, detente, Eased, Easement, Easing, mitigate, mitigated, Mitigating, mitigation, moderation). (various references) | |
Czech | paliativum, paliativní, zmíròující bolest, utišující prostředek (lenitive). (various references) | |
Danish | palliativum (palliative therapy, palliative treatment), palliativ/palliativa, palliativ, lindrende (demulcent, soothing). (various references) | |
Dutch | palliatief (palliative therapy, palliative treatment). (various references) | |
Finnish | palliatiivi (palliative therapy, palliative treatment), oireita lievittävä lääke (palliative therapy, palliative treatment). (various references) | |
French | palliatif (palliation, palliative therapy, palliative treatment, palliatives). (various references) | |
German | palliativ, linderungsmittel (palliatives), lindernd (allaying, alleviating, demulcent, lenitive, palliating, soothing). (various references) | |
Greek | κατευναστικός (palliative therapy, palliative treatment), καταπραϋντικό (sedative, soothing), μετριαστικόσ (mitigable), μετριαστικό, πραϋντικό (sop), παρηγορητικός (palliative therapy, palliative treatment), ανακουφιστικός (palliative therapy, palliative treatment, soothing), ανακουφιστικό. (various references) | |
Hebrew | מקל (extenuating, ferule, indulgent, lenient, rod, staff, stave, stick, switch). (various references) | |
Hungarian | mentegetõ (apologetic, apologetical, excusatory), enyhítõ (euphemistic, extenuatory, mitigatory, sedative, soothing), csillapítószer, csillapító (absorber, attenuative, balmy, bland, depressant, mitigative, soothing). (various references) | |
Italian | palliativo (palliative therapy, palliative treatment). (various references) | |
Manx | meelaghey (appease, appeasement, mangle, moisten, moistening, palliate, soften), jannoo nyn sloo. (various references) | |
Pig Latin | alliativepay.(various references) | |
Portuguese | paliativo (pallid). (various references) | |
Romanian | paliativ (makeshift, palliation). (various references) | |
Russian | смягчающее обстоятельство (extenuating circumstances), полумера (empirical measures, half measure, half way remedies), паллиативный. (various references) | |
Serbo-Croatian | palijativan, palijativ, umirujući (appeasable, calming, lenitive, mitigatory, sedative, soothing). (various references) | |
Spanish | paliativo (alleviative, palliative therapy, palliative treatment). (various references) | |
Swedish | lindringsmedel. (various references) | |
Turkish | yatıştırıcı (anodyne, calmative, calming, composing, conciliatory, corrective, demulcent, depressant, low profile, nervine, pacificatory, paregoric, placatory, propitiatory, salve, sedative, soothing, trank, tranquilizer, tranquillizer), hafifletici şey, hafifletici, geçici çare, geçici (ad interim, Band aid, casual, curable, deciduous, ephemeral, extrinsic, fading, flying, fortuitous, fugacious, impermanent, interim, interlocutory, jury, makeshift, momentary, passing, pro forma, provisional, provisory, provo, stopgap, temporal, temporary, tentative, transient, transitory, volatile). (various references) | |
Ukranian | пом'якшуюча обставина, пом'якшуючий (relaxing), паліативний, паліатив. (various references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references. | ||
Derivations | |
Words beginning with "palliative": palliatively, palliatives. (additional references) | |
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"Palliative" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: paleative, paliative, pallative, palliaitve, palliatif, palliatiue, pallitive, pollutive, saltative. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
| # of Phoneme Matches | Pronunciation | Word(s) rhyming with "palliative" (pronounced pa"lēutiv) |
| 4 | -u t i v | accusative, acquisitive, additive, affirmative, alliterative, alternative, anticompetitive, argumentative, causative, cognitive, commemorative, communicative, comparative, competitive, consecutive, conservative, consultative, contemplative, cumulative, curative, decorative, definitive, degenerative, demonstrative, derivative, diminutive, dispositive, duplicative, evocative, executive, expletive, exploitative, Federative, figurative, fixative, formative, fugitive, generative, hypersensitive, illustrative, imaginative, imperative, indicative, infinitive, informative, initiative, inoperative, inquisitive, insensitive, interpretive, intuitive, laxative, lucrative, narrative, negative, neoconservative, noncompetitive, noncumulative, nonexecutive, normative, nutritive, operative, participative, pejorative, positive, prerogative, preservative, preventative, primitive, prohibitive, provocative, punitive, putative, recuperative, relative, remunerative, rep, repetitive, representative, restorative, secretive, sedative, sensitive, speculative, superlative, talkative, tentative, ultraconservative, uncompetitive, uncooperative, unimaginative, uninformative, unrepresentative, vituperative. |
| 3 | -t i v | abortive, accommodative, accumulative, active, adaptive, addictive, adjective, administrative, adoptive, affective, appointive, appreciative, assaultive, assertive, attentive, attractive, authoritative, automotive, captive, collaborative, collective, combative, conductive, congestive, connective, constructive, contraceptive, cooperative, corrective, corruptive, counterproductive, creative, deceptive, defective, deliberative, descriptive, destructive, detective, digestive, dilutive, directive, disincentive, disparages, disruptive, dissipative, distinctive, distributive, effective, elective, elucidative, eruptive, exhaustive, exploitive, facultative, festive, furtive, hyperactive, imitative, inactive, inattentive, incentive, ineffective, infective, injunctive, innovative, instinctive, instructive, interactive, introspective, invective, inventive, investigative, irrespective, iterative, legislative, locomotive, manipulative, meditative, motive, native, nonautomotive, nonnative, nonproductive, objective, obstructive, octave, overactive, perceptive, perspective, photoconductive, plaintive, predictive, preemptive, presumptive, preventive, proactive, probative, productive, prognosticative, projective, prospective, protective, qualitative, quantitative, radioactive, reactive, receptive, reconstructive, redemptive, redistributive, reflective, refractive, regulative, rehabilitative, reproductive, respective, restive, restrictive, retroactive, retrospective, seductive, selective, stimulative, subjective, substantive, suggestive, superconductive, supportive, unattractive, unproductive, unreceptive, vegetative, vindictive. |
Source: compiled by the editor (additional references); see credits. | ||
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "a-a-e-i-i-l-l-p-t-v" | |
-2 letters: illative, palliate. | |
-3 letters: patella, tilapia, vallate, vitelli. | |
-4 letters: aplite, aviate, illite, paella, palate, paleal, pallet, pallia, taille, telial, villae. | |
-5 letters: aalii, alate, alive, avail, ileal, ilial, lapel, leapt, lepta, litai, palea, palet, petal, pieta, pilea, pilei, plait, plate, pleat, telia, tepal, valet, villa, villi, vitae, vital. | |
| Words containing the letters "a-a-e-i-i-l-l-p-t-v" | |
+1 letter: palliatives. | |
+2 letters: palliatively. | |
+3 letters: applicatively. | |
+4 letters: manipulatively. | |
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Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)50 61 6C 6C 69 61 74 69 76 65 |
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Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)01010000 01100001 01101100 01101100 01101001 01100001 01110100 01101001 01110110 01100101 |
HTML Code (1990) (references)P a l l i a t i v e |
ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)0050 0061 006C 006C 0069 0061 0074 0069 0076 0065 |
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Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)50677878756786758871 |
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