anaesthetic

Other forms of anaesthetic

plural

anaesthetics·

Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.

Questions about anaesthetic

What does anaesthetic mean?

anaesthetic means "relating to or producing insensibility". That is the primary sense; the word has 3 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in anaesthetic?

anaesthetic has 4 syllables: an-aes-thet-ic. The stress falls on "thet". In IPA it is /ˌænəsˈθɛtɪk/.

What is another word for anaesthetic?

Close synonyms include anesthetic, anesthetic, anesthetic, anesthetic agent, anaesthetic agent. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is anaesthetic a common word?

anaesthetic is banded "Uncommon" — turns up in careful writing rather than conversation. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.

What rhymes with anaesthetic?

12 words rhyme with anaesthetic. Rhymes are matched on the phonemes from the last stressed vowel onward, which is the definition a reader has in their head.