Palliative [adjective]
Definition of Palliative:
comforting
Opposite/Antonyms of Palliative:
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Sentence/Example of Palliative:
During his sickness he sought a palliative for his pains—in the Bible.
Insanity may perhaps be the only palliative left to Nature in this extremity.
For him there was a palliative, or even a gloomy but an unanswerable excuse.
As far as Cæsar is concerned, it is palliative rather than condemnatory.
Emigration on the largest scale has proved a palliative, but no remedy.
There is no excuse,no palliative for such cruel and abominable ingratitude.
But at the end of a few moments this palliative, like the first, had exhausted its effect.
Where the water is bad, some corrective or palliative will be had.
However I had a visit from Bob as a palliative which supported me under the rest.
The operation is useful as a diagnostic or palliative measure.