analgesic
2 synonyms for analgesic, grouped by meaning and by how common each one is.
Noun — A medicine, such as aspirin, that eases pain without making the person lose feeling elsewhere.
Synonyms
Rare, literary or technical
Precise, but they will stand out — check the sense before using one.
Etymology
From analgesia, meaning ‘absence of pain’, with the suffix -ic; analgesia itself comes from New Latin, from Ancient Greek ἀν- (an-), meaning ‘without’, and ἄλγησις (álgēsis), meaning ‘sense of pain’, from ἄλγος (álgos), meaning ‘pain’. Compare -algia.
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