anesthetic

Speech parts

1. anesthetic - Noun

2. anesthetic - Adjective

3. anesthetic - Adjective Satellite

Meaning

Same as Anaesthesia, Anaesthetic.

Source: Webster's dictionary

Synonyms

anaesthetic anesthetic agent anaesthetic agent gas drug spinal dull morphine acupuncture anesthesia hypnosis insensitive narcotic hypnotic bloodless
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Antonyms

energizer sensitive healthy incentive stimulation stimulating
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Hypernyms

drug

Hyponyms

local local anaesthetic local anesthetic general anaesthetic general anesthetic intravenous anesthetic

Phrases with the word

topical anesthetic give an anesthetic to anesthetic gas mixture anesthetic doctor spinal anesthetic regional anesthetic

Anagrams

entheastic

Examples

Life is pain and the enjoyment of love is an anesthetic. Cesare Pavese

The interesting thing is why we're so desperate for this anesthetic against loneliness. David Foster Wallace

Why does a man who is truly in love insist that this relationship must continue and be "lifelong"? Because life is pain and the enjoyment of love is an anesthetic. Who would want to wake up halfway through an operation? Cesare Pavese

Egotism is the anesthetic that dulls the pain of stupidity. Frank Leahy

If you can imagine a man having a vasectomy without anesthetic to the sound of frantic sitar-playing, you will have some idea of what popular Turkish music is like. Bill Bryson

Everyone is isolated from everyone else. The concept of society is like a cushion to protect us from the knowledge of that isolation. A fiction that serves as an anesthetic. Paul Bowles

Close letter words and terms

anesthesiometer anesthesiometry anesthesis anesthetic agent anesthetic doctor anesthetic drug