lenitive

Speech parts

1. lenitive - Noun

2. lenitive - Adjective

3. lenitive - Adjective Satellite

Having the quality of softening or mitigating, as pain or acrimony; assuasive; emollient.

A medicine or application that has the quality of easing pain or protecting from the action of irritants.

A mild purgative; a laxative.

That which softens or mitigates; that which tends to allay passion, excitement, or pain; a palliative.

Source: Webster's dictionary

palliative alleviative mitigative alleviatory mitigatory poppy balsam salve mild cream narcotic anesthetic hypnotic lenient cushion

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hard overwhelming painful exciting inflammatory dreadful

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cure therapeutic remedy curative

lenis lenite lenition lenitively lenitiveness lenitude