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panacea
Meaning: a solution for all difficulties or diseases
panacea in a sentence
How panacea is used in real sentences:
There is no panacea for the social problems of the city.
Exercise is no panacea, but it helps many things.
“No algorithm was a panacea; one classified breathing accurately but failed when a sleeper rolled onto an electrode.”
— from the passage Signals After Midnight
Synonyms for panacea
Other words for panacea — cure-all — carry the same meaning.
- cure-all
Antonyms of panacea
Words that mean the opposite of panacea:
- bane
- curse
Where it comes from
From Greek pan 'all' + akos 'remedy'
Word parts
- pan — every, all
panacea: pan- (all) + akos (cure)
Memory hook
PAN (all) + ACEA (cure) — cures all.