palliative
I
(abating) adjective
allaying, alleviating, alleviative, assuaging, assuasive, beneficial, calmative, consolatory, corrective, curative, easeful, helpful, lenient, drudge, mitigating, mitigative, modifying, modulatory, mollifying, pacifying, quelling, quieting, relieving, restorative, sedative, softening, soothing, stilling, subduing, tempering, therapeutic, tranquilizing
II
(excusing) adjective
apologetic, condonable, condoning, excepting, exculpable exculpating, excusatory, exempting, expiating, extenuating, extenuative, forgiving, justificatory, justifying, pardoning, qualifying, vindicating, vindicative, vindicatory
III
index
cure, drug, medicinal, mitigating, narcotic (adjective), narcotic (noun), panacea, remedial, remedy (that which corrects), salutary
Burton's Legal Thesaurus.
William C. Burton.
2006