1. antiseptic - Noun
2. antiseptic - Adjective
3. antiseptic - Adjective Satellite
Alt. of Antiseptical
A substance which prevents or retards putrefaction, or destroys, or protects from, putrefactive organisms; as, salt, carbolic acid, alcohol, cinchona.
Source: Webster's dictionaryHumor was an antiseptic that cleaned the deepest of personal wounds. Sherman Alexie
Few things in life can be so appalling as the difference between a dry antiseptic statement of a principle by a well spoken man in a quiet office, and what happens to people when that principle is put into practice. John Kenneth Galbraith
The standard of judgment is no longer results but the flickering image of seriousness, skillfully crafted to squeeze into 30 seconds on the nightly news. In this world, emotion has become suspect - the accepted style is smooth, antiseptic and passionless. Joe Biden
I had to pull about twenty pieces of broken glass out of my hand using tweezers and antiseptic cream. I'm never going to have a game of arm wrestling with Michael Howard again. Gyles Brandreth
In this world, emotion has become suspect - the accepted style is smooth, antiseptic and passionless. Joe Biden
Our characters were antiseptic but we weren't. And if you remember what we did on BATMAN, as the scripts were written very funny, we played them very straight. Burt Ward