anodyne

1. 1.

   capable of relieving pain

   “the anodyne properties of certain drugs”

   “an analgesic effect”

   Synonymsanalgesicanalgetic

   Similarmoderating

Other forms of anodyne

plural

anodynes·

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 anodyne

What does anodyne mean?

anodyne 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 anodyne?

anodyne has 3 syllables: a-no-dyne. The stress falls on "a".

What is another word for anodyne?

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

anodyne is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.