| 单词 | alleviant |
| 释义 | alleviant in British English (əˈliːvɪənt) noun a medical treatment that reduces pain but does not cure the underlying problem If the alleviant of Alzheimer's disease, an extract from daffodil bulbs, gets finalapproval shortly, Shire's future should be bright. alleviant in American English (əˈliviənt) noun something that alleviates a condition Word origin [allevi(ate) + -ant]-ant is a suffix forming adjectives and nouns from verbs, occurring originally in Frenchand Latin loanwords (pleasant; constant; servant) and productive in English on this model; -ant has the general sense “characterized by or serving in the capacity of” that namedby the stem (ascendant; pretendant), esp. in the formation of nouns denoting human agents in legal actions or otherformal procedures (tenant; defendant; applicant; contestant). In technical and commercial coinages, -ant is a suffix of nouns denoting impersonal physical agents (propellant; lubricant; deodorant). In general, -ant can be added only to bases of Latin origin, with a very few exceptions, as coolant |
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