paliativo — meaning in English
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English meaning
- anodyne adjective Deliberately bland and inoffensive, so mild that it cannot upset or interest anyone.
- palliative adj Serving to palliate; serving to extenuate or mitigate.
Senses
paliativo is used for these senses in English:
- anodyne (pharmaceutical effect) Capable of soothing or eliminating pain. [from 16th c.]
- palliative (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.
anodyne — full definition
- adjective Deliberately bland and inoffensive, so mild that it cannot upset or interest anyone.
- noun Something that soothes distress or takes the edge off pain.
- adjective Relieving pain.
palliative — full definition
- adj Serving to palliate; serving to extenuate or mitigate.
- adj Minimising the progression of a disease and relieving undesirable symptoms for as long as possible, rather than attempting to cure the (usually incurable) disease.