palliative

Other forms of palliative

plural

palliatives·

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 palliative

What does palliative mean?

palliative means "remedy that alleviates pain without curing". That is the primary sense; the word has 2 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in palliative?

palliative has 4 syllables: pal-li-a-tive. The stress falls on "pal". In IPA it is /ˈpæliətɪv/.

What is another word for palliative?

Close synonyms include alleviant, alleviator, alleviative, alleviatory, lenitive. 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 palliative a common word?

palliative is banded "Uncommon" — turns up in careful writing rather than conversation. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.