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What is the adjective for palliatives?

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Included below are past participle and present participle forms for the verb palliate which may be used as adjectives within certain contexts.

palliative
  1. Serving to palliate; serving to extenuate or mitigate.
  2. (medicine) Minimising the progression of a disease and relieving undesirable symptoms for as long as possible, rather than attempting to cure the (usually incurable) disease.
  3. Synonyms:
      4. soothing, sedative, calming, relaxing, calmative, lenitive, analgesic, comforting, anodyne, alleviating, alleviative, alleviatory, demulcent, painkilling, mitigatory, mollifying, assuasive, mitigative, paregoric, reassuring, anaesthetic, anesthetic, narcotic, assuaging, relieving, numbing, emollient, tranquilizing, deadening, balsamic, pacifying, quieting, quietening, tranquillising, tranquillizing, dulling, lulling, healing, dreamy, pain-relieving, pain-killing, easing, gentle, settling, easeful, remedying, softening, moisturizing, soporific, somnolent … more
  4. Examples:
      5. “In the past, treatment consisted of palliative therapy with pain relievers and folic acid supplements.”
palliate
  1. (obsolete) Cloaked; hidden, concealed. [15th-17th c.]
  2. (obsolete) Eased; mitigated; alleviated.
palliatory
  1. palliative; extenuating
palliated
  1. simple past tense and past participle of palliate
  2. Synonyms:
      3. helped, alleviated, treated, nursed, attended, cured, healed, relieved, soothed, succored, allayed, doctored, mollified, nourished, remedied, assuaged, attenuated, lessened, made better, balmed, succoured, rehabilitated, improved, ameliorated, holpen, holp … more
palliating
  1. present participle of palliate
  2. Synonyms:
      3. soothing, allaying, assuaging, alleviating, easing, mitigating, relieving, lessening, moderating, diminishing, mollifying, softening, tempering, dulling, decreasing, abating, blunting, relaxing, deadening, lightening, helping, lenifying, taking the edge off, reducing, calming, pacifying, subduing, lulling, appeasing, quelling, tranquilizing, tranquillising, quieting, quietening, composing, stilling, toning down, placating, settling, salving, weakening, cushioning, cooling, curing, checking, attenuating, extenuating, ameliorating, healing, stifling … more
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