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pana·cea (pan′ə sēə)

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

panacea Related Forms
pan′a·cean adjective
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panacea

n.

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.

—Carlyle,Thomas

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