ANESTHETIC: Synonyms and Related Words. What is Another Word for ANESTHETIC?

Need another word that means the same as “anesthetic”? Find 4 synonyms and 30 related words for “anesthetic” in this overview.

The synonyms of “Anesthetic” are: anaesthetic, anaesthetic agent, anesthetic agent

Anesthetic as a Noun

Definitions of "Anesthetic" as a noun

According to the Oxford Dictionary of English, “anesthetic” as a noun can have the following definitions:

• A drug that causes temporary loss of bodily sensations.

Synonyms of "Anesthetic" as a noun (3 Words)

anaesthetic	The study or practice of anaesthesia. He trained as a medical technical officer working in anaesthetics.
anaesthetic agent	The semantic role of the animate entity that instigates or causes the happening denoted by the verb in the clause.
anesthetic agent	A drug that causes temporary loss of bodily sensations.

Anesthetic as an Adjective

Definitions of "Anesthetic" as an adjective

According to the Oxford Dictionary of English, “anesthetic” as an adjective can have the following definitions:

• Relating to or producing insensibility.
• Characterized by insensibility.

Synonyms of "Anesthetic" as an adjective (1 Word)

anaesthetic

Relating to or producing insensibility. Anaesthetic drugs and gases.

Usage Examples of "Anesthetic" as an adjective

• An anesthetic state.
• The young girls are in a state of possession–blind and deaf and anesthetic.

Associations of "Anesthetic" (30 Words)

blunt	Make dull or blunt. Blunted emotions.
callosity	A thickened and hardened part of the skin; a callus.
callous	Make insensitive or callous deaden feelings or morals. With a workman s callous hands.
cold	Of a person feeling uncomfortably cold. Come in out of the cold.
coldness	A lack of affection or enthusiasm. The bitter coldness of the British weather.
emotionless	Unmoved by feeling-Margaret Deland. He kept his emotionless objectivity and faith in the cause he served.
freezing	The freezing point of water 0 C. He was freezing and miserable.
frigid	Sexually unresponsive. A frigid greeting.
frostbitten	Injured by freezing or partial freezing. Frostbitten fingers.
frosty	(of the weather) very cold, with frost forming on surfaces. A frosty glass.
frozen	Incapable of being changed or moved or undone; e.g. Frozen wastes.
gelid	Extremely cold. She gave a gelid reply.
glacial	A glacial period. His glacial blue eyes.
hypothermia	The condition of having an abnormally (typically dangerously) low body temperature. She was suffering from hypothermia.
icy	Shiny and slick as with a thin coating of ice. Icy stare.
indifference	The trait of lacking enthusiasm for or interest in things generally. The indifference of Chelsea s midfield.
indifferent	Not good; fairly bad. He gave an indifferent shrug.
influenza	An acute febrile highly contagious viral disease.
insensate	Lacking sympathy or compassion; unfeeling. A positively insensate hatred.
insensible	Unresponsive to stimulation. He lay insensible where he had fallen.
insensitive	Showing or feeling no concern for others’ feelings. She was remarkably insensitive to pain.
numb	Make numb or insensitive. Vodka might numb the pain in my hand.
operation	Psychology the performance of some composite cognitive activity an operation that affects mental contents. Certain machine tool operations.
paralyzed	Affected with paralysis.
rime	Frost formed on cold objects by the rapid freezing of water vapour in cloud or fog. The rime was thick and crisp on the grass.
senseless	Lacking common sense; wildly foolish. Drugged and senseless.
sleet	A thin coating of ice formed by sleet or rain freezing on coming into contact with a cold surface. It was sleeting so hard we could barely see.
standoffish	Lacking cordiality; unfriendly. A standoffish manner.
unconscious	Not conscious; lacking awareness and the capacity for sensory perception as if asleep or dead. What is it he said again unconscious of the repetition.
wintry	Characteristic of or occurring in winter. Suffered severe wintry weather.