Another word for anesthetic
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Adjective
Lacking passion and emotion
- Not having enough blood; anemic or pale
- Without blood
- Pale and anemic in color:
- Not clear or resonant:
- Not bright, vivid, or shiny:
- Dispirited; depressed:
- Lacking sensation; not feeling, or not capable of feeling, sensation; inanimate
- Lacking sense or the power to reason.
- Lacking sensibility; without regard or feeling for others; cold; insensitive
- Devoid of physical sensation or the power to react, as to pain or cold; numb.
- Not responsive emotionally; without feeling
- Imperceptible; inappreciable:
- Having or showing a lack of concern for the feelings of others; tactless
- Not having normal emotional feelings; cold; tactless; undiplomatic
- Not sensitive; esp., incapable of being impressed, influenced, or affected; having little or no reaction (to)
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Another word for anesthetic
Noun
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- A sedative medicine
- An agent or a drug having a soothing, calming, or tranquilizing effect.
- Any drug, as aspirin, that is taken to relieve pain
- A medication that reduces or eliminates pain.
- A medicine that relieves pain; analgesic
- An agent, such as an analgesic drug, that relieves pain.
- Anything that relieves pain or soothes
- A medicine, such as aspirin, that relieves pain.
- A source of soothing comfort.
- Something, as a drug, that causes sleep
- A drug or other substance that induces sleep; a hypnotic.
- An artificially induced altered state of consciousness, characterized by heightened suggestibility and receptivity to direction.
- A trancelike state, artificially induced, in which a person has a heightened suggestibility, and in which suppressed memories may be experienced
- A trancelike condition usually induced by another person, in which the subject is in a state of altered consciousness and responds, with certain limitations, to the suggestions of the hypnotist
- A drug, such as an anesthetic or bronchodilator, or another substance, such as saline solution, inhaled for medicinal purposes in vapor or aerosol form.
- A medicine or other substance to be inhaled as a vapor
- A substance inhaled as an intoxicant, usually in the form of a vapor.
- The speed control of a gasoline engine. Used with the:
- A gaseous fuel, such as natural gas.
- A condition resulting from indigestion in which such gas causes abdominal bloating, flatulence, etc.
- The injection of a medicine or drug under the skin
- A subcutaneous, intracutaneous, intramuscular, or intravenous injection by means of a hypodermic syringe and needle.
- Plural form of drop
- Any of various sedative narcotics containing opium or one or more of its natural or synthetic derivatives.
- A drug, hormone, or other chemical substance having sedative or narcotic effects similar to those containing opium or its derivatives:
- Any drug containing opium or any of its derivatives, and acting as a sedative and narcotic
- Anything that has a soothing, lulling, or dulling effect
- A controlled substance.
- A drug, as opium or any of its derivatives (morphine, heroin, codeine, etc.), used to relieve pain and induce sleep: narcotics are often addictive and in excessive doses can cause stupor, coma, or death
- A dressing, varnish, or filler, as for protecting the cloth covering of airplane wings, surfaces, etc.
- Any thick liquid or pasty substance, or other material, used to lubricate or absorb something
- (Chiefly Southern US) A carbonated soft drink containing an extract of the kola nut and other flavorings.
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