| The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language: Fourth Edition. 2000. |
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| anodyne |
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| SYLLABICATION: | an·o·dyne |
| PRONUNCIATION: |   n  -d n |
| ADJECTIVE: | 1. Capable of soothing or eliminating pain. 2. Relaxing: anodyne novels about country life. | | NOUN: | 1. A medicine, such as aspirin, that relieves pain. 2. A source of soothing comfort. | | ETYMOLOGY: | Latin an dynus, from Greek andunos, free from pain : an-, without; see a–1 + odun , pain; see ed- in Appendix I.
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