Lenitive
Definition, Meaning & Examples
Part of speech adjective
Quick meaning: Lenitive is an adjective meaning Analgesic, able to reduce pain or suffering.
Meaning
Analgesic, able to reduce pain or suffering.
More Meanings
- Laxative; easing the bowels.
- (of a person) Mild; gentle.
- An analgesic or other source of relief from pain
- A laxative.
Example Sentences
Their pain soft arts of pharmacy can ease, Thy breast alone no lenitives appease.
Upon the whole, as the author seems to share all the common miseries of life, he appears to partake likewise of its lenitives and abatements.
It is now full time to free him from all these necessities, and to apply cordials and lenitives, after those severities which have already had their full course against him.
Word Forms
- lenitives
Synonyms for lenitive
Depending on context, synonyms include palliative, mitigative, alleviative, moderating, mitigatory.
Related Words
Related dictionary entries include mitigatory, alleviative, palliative, mitigative, moderating, electuary.
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