palliative
5 synonyms for palliative, grouped by meaning and by how common each one is.
Adj — Serving to palliate; serving to extenuate or mitigate.
Synonyms
Rare, literary or technical
Precise, but they will stand out — check the sense before using one.
Etymology
From Middle French palliatif, from New Latin *palliātīvus, from Medieval Latin palliō (“to cloak”), from Latin pallium (“a cloak”).
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