panacea
panacea
Definition
pana·cea (pan′ə sē′ə)
noun
a supposed remedy or medicine for all diseases or ills; cure-all
Etymology: L < Gr panakeia < panakēs, healing all < pan, all (see pan-) + akos, healing, medicine < ? IE base *yēk-, to cure > prob. Welsh iach, healthy, OIr hīcc, cure
pan′a·ce′an adjective
panacea
Synonyms
panacea
Usage Examples
Converse of object
- offer: The proposal offers no panaceas, only new grounds for hope and action.
- become: After years of incarceration the outside had become the panacea to all my ills.
- provide: However, AI does not provide a panacea in any area of its applicability.
- mean: How to integrate eLearning with classroom learning eLearning is by no means a panacea for all.
- have: To the end of his days Clemens would always have some panacea to offer to allay human distress.
- create: Nick Long -- the writer of Julia C -- has created a panacea for all reality TV junkies.
Preposition: for
- ill: Work has become his ideal, his solace, his panacea for all ills.
- problem: What the firewall will not do The firewall is not a panacea for all network security problems.
- woe: Avoiding the pitfalls of automated testing It is commonly thought that automated testing is the panacea for all quality assurance woes.
- range: Organic farming is being touted as the panacea for a whole range of maladies afflicting third world rural society.
- society: Advocates of politics of multiculturalism begin to realize that even they do not have a panacea for a happy diverse society.
- everything: More than one member offered the observation that the web is not a panacea for everything.
Adjective modifier
- universal: In fact 11 million people have taken Prozac, the universal panacea for happiness.
- simple: I agree with you in the context of what is being implemented under the name ' DRM ' ; there's no simple panacea.
- new: In J. Stephenson ( ed. ) Mentoring - the new panacea?
- instant: Surely we must accept that we are not discussing an instant panacea.
- technological: Dougal Scott said that WiFi or Wimax was not a technological panacea to resolve the digital divide.
- great: It is the great panacea, a cure for all ills.
Modifies a noun
- trade: A panacea trade associations to insurance car cheap in insurance uk products offered group research suggesting.
panacea Quotes
The English are used to suffrage; it istheir panacea for all that goes wrong with them.
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