Anodyne: Definition and part of speech

Anodyne

  1. a. Any medicine which allays pain, as an opiate or narcotic; anything that soothes disturbed feelings.
  2. a. Serving to assuage pain; soothing.

The word meanings were obtained from OPTED(The Online Plain Text English Dictionary), which is based on “The Project Gutenberg Etext of Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary” which is in turn based on the 1913 US Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary (See Project Gutenburg), as a text file.

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