Associations to the word «Anaesthetic»

Wiktionary

ANAESTHETIC, adjective. (British spelling) Of, relating to, or causing anaesthesia.
ANAESTHETIC, noun. (British spelling) A substance that causes reversible loss of sensation or loss of consciousness; used to perform surgery without pain.

Dictionary definition

ANAESTHETIC, noun. A drug that causes temporary loss of bodily sensations.
ANAESTHETIC, adjective. Relating to or producing insensibility.
ANAESTHETIC, adjective. Characterized by insensibility; "the young girls are in a state of possession--blind and deaf and anesthetic"; "an anesthetic state".

Wise words

Words are always getting conventionalized to some secondary meaning. It is one of the works of poetry to take the truants in custody and bring them back to their right senses.
William Butler Yeats