Usually means: Relieves pain, bland, inoffensive content.
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  1. anodyne: Merriam-Webster.com
  2. anodyne: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. anodyne: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. anodyne: Collins English Dictionary
  5. anodyne: Vocabulary.com
  6. Anodyne, anodyne: Wordnik
  7. anodyne: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  8. anodyne: Wiktionary
  9. anodyne: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  10. anodyne: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  11. anodyne: Infoplease Dictionary
  12. anodyne: Dictionary.com
  13. anodyne: Online Etymology Dictionary
  14. Anodyne (album), Anodyne (band), Anodyne (disambiguation), Anodyne (video game), Anodyne: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  15. Anodyne: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  16. anodyne: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  17. anodyne: Rhymezone
  18. Anodyne: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  19. anodyne: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  20. anodyne: Free Dictionary
  21. anodyne: The Phrontistery - A Dictionary of Obscure Words
  22. anodyne: Mnemonic Dictionary
  23. Anodyne: The Word Detective
  24. anodyne: Dictionary/thesaurus
  25. anodyne: Merriam-Webster.com

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  1. Anodyne: Health & Beauty Glossary

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  1. anodyne: Legal dictionary

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  1. anodyne: Encyclopedia

Medicine (5 matching dictionaries)
  1. Dorland's Illustrated Medical Dictionary (No longer online)
  2. anodyne: Natural Health glossary
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  4. Hepatitis C Information Central (No longer online)
  5. anodyne: Medical dictionary

Miscellaneous (1 matching dictionary)
  1. anodyne: A Word A Day

Slang (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. anodyne: Green’s Dictionary of Slang
  2. Anodyne: Urban Dictionary

Tech (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Anodyne: Beauty & Health Glossary

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Definitions from Wiktionary (
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American English Definition British English Definition
adjective:  (pharmacology) Capable of soothing or eliminating pain.
adjective:  (figuratively) Soothing or relaxing.
adjective:  (by extension) Noncontentious, blandly agreeable, unlikely to cause offence or debate.
noun:  (pharmacology) Any medicine or other agent that relieves pain.
noun:  (figuratively) A source of relaxation or comfort.

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