anesthetic

Other forms of anesthetic

plural

anesthetics·

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 anesthetic

What does anesthetic mean?

anesthetic 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 anesthetic?

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

What is another word for anesthetic?

Close synonyms include anaesthetic, anaesthetic, anaesthetic, 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 anesthetic a common word?

anesthetic is banded "Familiar" — widely understood, used when the subject calls for it. 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 anesthetic?

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