analgesic

1. 1.

   capable of relieving pain

   “the anodyne properties of certain drugs”

   “an analgesic effect”

   Synonymsanalgeticanodyne

   Similarmoderating

Other forms of analgesic

plural

analgesics·

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 analgesic

What does analgesic mean?

analgesic means "a medicine used to relieve pain". That is the primary sense; the word has 2 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in analgesic?

analgesic has 4 syllables: an-al-ge-sic. The stress falls on "ge". In IPA it is /ˌænəlˈdʒisɪk/.

What is another word for analgesic?

Close synonyms include anodyne, painkiller, pain pill, analgetic, anodyne. 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 analgesic a common word?

analgesic 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.