Meaning of anodyne | Babel Free

Definitions

1. Any medicine or other agent that relieves pain.
2. A source of relaxation or comfort.
   figuratively

Equivalents

Examples

“Nor do I mean to say that Virtue is not Virtue because it is never tempted to go astray; only that dulness is a much finer gift than we give it credit for being; and that some people are very lucky whom Nature has endowed with a good store of that great anodyne.”

“The air was heavy with the perfume of the flowers, and their beauty seemed to bring him an anodyne for his pain.”

“So, with a sigh, because novels so often provide an anodyne and not an antidote, glide one into torpid slumbers instead of rousing one with a burning brand.”

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