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Alleviative

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The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition

adj. Reducing pain or severity; palliative: alleviative treatment for an incurable disease.

Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License

adj. That alleviates pain; palliative

n. That which alleviates; a drug or remedy.

the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English

adj. Tending to alleviate.

The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia

Tending to alleviate or mitigate.

n. That which alleviates or mitigates: as, “some cheering alleviative,”

WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.

adj. moderating pain or sorrow by making it easier to bear

Word Usage

"I request that if he has brought any form of opium with him he will give it to me, and we enter into a stipulation that he will come to me for any opiate or other alleviative which he may desire."

Equivalent

moderating

Synonym

Words with the same meaning

mitigator