local anesthetic

Questions about local anesthetic

What is another word for local anesthetic?

It depends which local anesthetic you mean. In the sense “anesthetic that numbs a particular area of the body”, the synonyms are local anaesthetic, local, topical anesthetic, topical anaesthetic. Across all 1 sense there are 4 distinct synonyms, and they are not interchangeable with each other — this page lists them under the sense each one belongs to.

What is the opposite of local anesthetic?

WordNet records no antonym for local anesthetic. Antonymy in WordNet is a relation between specific word forms rather than between concepts, so it is recorded only where lexicographers judged the pairing direct. An absence here means none was recorded, not that none can be imagined.

Where do the synonyms for local anesthetic come from?

From Princeton University's WordNet, a lexical database maintained by lexicographers since 1985. A synonym here means a word form that shares a synset with this word — a set of forms interchangeable in one recorded context. Nothing on this page is generated by a language model.

Other views of local anesthetic

• Full entry for local anestheticAll 1 sense, with examples, usage labels, syllables and pronunciation.
• Rhymes for local anestheticWhether this word can be rhymed at all — it is not in the pronouncing dictionary.
• Thesaurus homeHow WordNet synsets work, and the collections built for synonym work.