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anaesthetic

anaesthetic is the alternative spelling of anesthetic.

Meaning of anesthetic

Adjective

anesthetic (comparative more anesthetic, superlative most anesthetic)

  1. (Canada, US) Causing anesthesia; reducing pain sensitivity.
  2. (Canada, US) Insensate: unable to feel, or unconscious.
    • (I find that he is analgesic and anaesthetic; evidently he is in a state of passive somnambulism.)
      E. A. Did you feel anybody touch you?
      K. No. There's no one near me. (He continues laughing and talking. […])1924, Maurice Walter Keatinge, Suggestion in Education

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Forms of anaesthetic

Adjective
comparativemore anaesthetic
superlativemost anaesthetic
Noun
pluralanaesthetics

Words formed from anaesthetic

Phrases with anaesthetic

Questions about anaesthetic

What is anaesthetic the alternative spelling of?
Anaesthetic is the alternative spelling of anesthetic.

Words near anaesthetic in the dictionary

  1. anaesthesiology
  2. anaesthesiometry
  3. anaesthesis
  4. anaesthete
  5. anaesthetes
  6. anaesthetic
  7. anaesthetical
  8. anaesthetically
  9. anaesthetician
  10. anaestheticians
  11. anaesthetics

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