alleviative

[uh-lee-vee-ey-tiv, -uh-tiv]

adjective

1. Also alleviatory serving to alleviate; palliative.

noun

1. Obsolete.,  alleviation.

Other Word Forms

• unalleviative adjective

Word History and Origins

Origin of alleviative¹

First recorded in 1665–75; alleviate + -ive

Example Sentences

It is as tender a tribute to the alleviative power of friendship as I can imagine.

From The New Yorker

"I have been bronchitic and asthmatic for twenty years, and have never known an alleviative so immediately efficacious as 'Anisette.'"

From Project Gutenberg

Aunt Helen and grannie put me to bed, where I yelled with pain for hours like a mad Red Indian, despite their applying every alleviative possible.

From Project Gutenberg

Also they had been promised a solution of the noise mystery and was not that in itself sufficient alleviative?

From Project Gutenberg

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