Hyphenation of palliative

Wondering how to hyphenate the English word palliative? This word can be hyphenated and contains 3 syllables as shown below.

pal-lia-tive

Definitions of palliative:

1.	Remedy that alleviates pain without curing
2.	Moderating pain or sorrow by making it easier to bear

Synonyms of palliative:

adj	alleviative, alleviatory, lenitive, mitigative, mitigatory, moderating
noun	alleviant, alleviator, remedy, curative, cure

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Hyphenator

The hyphen is a punctuation mark used to join words and to separate syllables of a single word. The use of hyphens is called hyphenation. The hyphen should not be confused with dashes, which are longer and have different uses, or with the minus sign, which is also longer in some contexts. Some words can be hyphenated in different places and you can use this website to find out where. Also reffered to as syllable counter and divider.