lenitive

Other forms of lenitive

plural

lenitives·

Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.

Questions about lenitive

What does lenitive mean?

lenitive means "remedy that eases pain and discomfort". That is the primary sense; the word has 2 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in lenitive?

lenitive has 3 syllables: le-ni-tive. The stress falls on "le".

What is another word for lenitive?

Close synonyms include alleviative, alleviatory, 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 lenitive a common word?

lenitive 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.