Word Meanings - ANODYNE - Book Publishers vocabulary database

Serving to assuage pain; soothing. The anodyne draught of oblivion. Burke. Note: "The word in chiefly applied to the different preparations of opium, belladonna, hyoscyamus, and lettuce." Am. Cyc.

Possible synonyms: (Same meaning words of ANODYNE)

• Sedative
• Allaying
• tranquillizing
• composing
• soothing
• demulcent
• palliative
• assuasive
• lenient
• anodyne
• hypnotic
• Soporific
• Somniferous
• narcotic
• opiate

Related words: (words related to ANODYNE)

• HYPNOTIC
  1. Having the quality of producing sleep; tending to produce sleep; soporific. 2. Of or pertaining to hypnotism; in a state of hypnotism; liable to hypnotism; as, a hypnotic condition.
• COMPOSITOUS
  Belonging to the Compositæ; composite. Darwin.
• DEMULCENT
  Softening; mollifying; soothing; assuasive; as, oil is demulcent.
• PALLIATIVE
  Serving to palliate; serving to extenuate or mitigate.
• LENIENTLY
  In a lenient manner.
• COMPOSURE
  1. The act of composing, or that which is composed; a composition. Signor Pietro, who had an admirable way both of composure and teaching. Evelyn. 2. Orderly adjustment; disposition. Various composures and combinations of these corpuscles.
• COMPOSSIBLE
  Able to exist with another thing; consistent. Chillingworth.
• COMPOSE
  To arrange in a composing stick in order for printing; to set . (more info) 1. To form by putting together two or more things or parts; to put together; to make up; to fashion. Zeal ought to be composed of the hidhest degrees of all
• NARCOTICAL
  Narcotic. -- Nar*cot"ic*al*ly, adv.
• OPIATED
  1. Mixed with opiates. 2. Under the influence of opiates.
• COMPOSER
  1. One who composes; an author. Specifically, an author of a piece of music. If the thoughts of such authors have nothing in them, they at least . . . show an honest industry and a good intention in the composer. Addison. His most brilliant and
• OPIATE
  1. Originally, a medicine of a thicker consistence than sirup, prepared with opium. Parr. 2. Any medicine that contains opium, and has the quality of inducing sleep or repose; a narcotic. 3. Anything which induces rest or inaction; that
• COMPOSITE
  Belonging to a certain order which is composed of the Ionic order grafted upon the Corinthian. It is called also the Roman or the Italic order, and is one of the five orders recognized by the Italian writers of the sixteenth century. See Capital.
• SOOTHNESS
  Truth; reality. Chaucer.
• COMPOSTURE
  Manure; compost. Shak.
• ANODYNE
  Serving to assuage pain; soothing. The anodyne draught of oblivion. Burke. Note: "The word in chiefly applied to the different preparations of opium, belladonna, hyoscyamus, and lettuce." Am. Cyc.
• COMPOSITAE
  A large family of dicotyledonous plants, having their flowers arranged in dense heads of many small florets and their anthers united in a tube. The daisy, dandelion, and asters, are examples.
• NARCOTIC
  Having the properties of a narcotic; operating as a narcotic. -- Nar*cot"ic*ness, n.
• SOOTHLY
  In truth; truly; really; verily. "Soothly for to say." Chaucer.
• SOMNIFEROUS
  Causing or inducing sleep; soporific; dormitive; as, a somniferous potion. Walton.
• INDECOMPOSABLENESS
  Incapableness of decomposition; stability; permanence; durability.
• DECOMPOSE
  To separate the constituent parts of; to resolve into original elements; to set free from previously existing forms of chemical combination; to bring to dissolution; to rot or decay.
• SUBNARCOTIC
  Moderately narcotic.
• DECOMPOSITION
  1. The act or process of resolving the constituent parts of a compound body or substance into its elementary parts; separation into constituent part; analysis; the decay or dissolution consequent on the removal or alteration of some of
• AUTOHYPNOTIC
  Pert. to autohypnotism; self-hypnotizing. -- n.
• TRANQUILIZE; TRANQUILLIZE
  To render tranquil; to allay when agitated; to compose; to make calm and peaceful; as, to tranquilize a state disturbed by factions or civil commotions; to tranquilize the mind. Syn. -- To quiet; compose; still; soothe; appease; calm; pacify. (more
• FORSOOTH
  In truth; in fact; certainly; very well; -- formerly used as an expression of deference or respect, especially to woman; now used ironically or contemptuously. A fit man, forsooth, to govern a realm! Hayward. Our old English word forsooth has been