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nonanesthetic

nonanesthetic adjective: not anesthetic.

Adjective

nonanesthetic (not comparable)

  1. Not anesthetic.
    • He seeks to widen them somehow, by doing something else, something tactile, nonanesthetic, something to get adrenaline moving in his numbed veins.2007 February 18, Lawrence Downes, “Running Into Fences”, in New York Times

Noun

nonanesthetic (plural nonanesthetics)

  1. A drug without anesthetic effects.

Forms of nonanesthetic

Adjective
alternative formnonanaesthetic
Noun
pluralnonanesthetics

Origin of nonanesthetic

From non- + anesthetic.

Questions about nonanesthetic

What does nonanesthetic mean?
Nonanesthetic means not anesthetic.
What part of speech is nonanesthetic?
Nonanesthetic can be an adjective or a noun.

Words near nonanesthetic in the dictionary

  1. nonanecdotal
  2. nonanedioic acid
  3. nonanemic
  4. nonanergic
  5. nonanes
  6. nonanesthetic
  7. nonanesthetics
  8. nonanesthetized
  9. nonaneuploid
  10. nonaneuploidy
  11. nonaneurysmal

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