anesthetic
Meanings
Plural: anesthetics
Noun
- a drug that causes temporary loss of bodily sensations
- A substance administered to reduce the perception of pain or to induce numbness for surgery and may render the recipient unconscious.
Adjective
- relating to or producing insensibility
Adjective Satellite
- characterized by insensibility
- "the young girls are in a state of possession--blind and deaf and anesthetic"
- "an anesthetic state"
Adj
- Causing anesthesia; reducing pain sensitivity.
- Insensate: unable to feel, or unconscious.
Origin / Etymology
From an- + esthetic, or Latinized form of Ancient Greek ἀναίσθητος (anaísthētos, “insensible”) + -ic, from ἀν- (an-, “un-”) + αἰσθητικός (aisthētikós, “perceptible”).
Synonyms
anaesthetic, anaesthetic agent, anesthetic agent
Scrabble Score: 15
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Words With Friends Score: 16
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