alleviatory

1. 1.

   moderating pain or sorrow by making it easier to bear

   Synonymsalleviativelenitivemitigativemitigatorypalliative

   Similarmoderating

Questions about alleviatory

What does alleviatory mean?

alleviatory means "moderating pain or sorrow by making it easier to bear".

How many syllables are in alleviatory?

alleviatory has 6 syllables: al-le-vi-a-to-ry. The stress falls on "a".

What is another word for alleviatory?

Close synonyms include alleviative, lenitive, mitigative, mitigatory, palliative. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is alleviatory a common word?

alleviatory is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.