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Comforter vs Palliative - What's the difference?

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As nouns the difference between comforter and palliative

is that comforter is a person who comforts someone who is suffering while palliative is something that palliates, particularly a palliative medicine.

As a proper noun Comforter

is the Holy Spirit, the Holy Ghost.

As an adjective palliative is

serving to palliate; serving to extenuate or mitigate.

comforter

English

Noun

(en noun)
  • A person who comforts someone who is suffering.
  • * Shakespeare
    • Let no comforter delight mine ear / But such a one whose wrongs do suit with mine.
  • (US) A padded cover for a bed, duvet, continental quilt.
  • (old fashioned, mostly UK) A woollen scarf for winter.
  • * Popular Science Monthly
    • The American schoolboy takes off his comforter and unbuttons his jacket before going in for a snowball fight.
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  • (UK, NZ, AU) A pacifier.

    • Synonyms

    * (person who comforts) consoler * (padded bed cover) duvet, (continental) quilt

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    palliative

    English

    Adjective

    (en adjective)
  • Serving to palliate; serving to extenuate or mitigate.
  • (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.

    • Synonyms

    * (medicine)

    Coordinate terms

    * (medicine) analgesic, lenitive

    Related terms

    * palliate * palliation

    See also

    * (Palliative care)

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • (medicine) Something that palliates, particularly a palliative medicine.
    • The radiation and chemotherapy were only palliatives .

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