1. Moderating pain or sorrow by making it easier to bear
   - alleviative, alleviatory, lenitive, mitigative, mitigatory

1. Remedy that alleviates pain without curing
   - alleviant, alleviator

Derived forms: palliatives

See also: moderating, palliate

Type of: curative, cure, remedy, therapeutic

Encyclopedia: Palliative

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