Anodyne vs Soporific - What's the difference?
anodyne | soporific |
Capable]] of [[soothe, soothing or eliminating pain.
* 1847 , Littell's Living Age , number 161, 12 June 1847, in Volume 13, page 483:
* 1910 , Edward L. Keyes, Diseases of the Genito-Urinary Organs , page 211:
(figuratively) Soothing or relaxing.
Noncontentious, blandly agreeable, unlikely to cause offence or debate; bland, inoffensive.
* 2003 , The Guardian , 20 May 2003:
* 2010 , "Rattled", The Economist , 9 Dec 2010:
(pharmacology) Any medicine or other agent that relieves pain.
(figuratively) A source of relaxation or comfort.
*1890 , (Oscar Wilde), The Picture of Dorian Gray , ch. VII:
*:The air was heavy with the perfume of the flowers, and their beauty seemed to bring him an anodyne for his pain.
*1929 , (Virginia Woolf), A Room of One's Own , page 79:
Something inducing sleep, especially a drug.
(figuratively) Something boring or dull.
Tending to induce sleep.
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* 1909 , (Beatrix Potter), (The Tale of The Flopsy Bunnies) , [http://www.gutenberg.org/files/14220/14220-h/14220-h.htm]:
(lb) boring, dull
In figuratively|lang=en terms the difference between anodyne and soporific
is that anodyne is (figuratively) a source of relaxation or comfort while soporific is (figuratively) something boring or dull.As adjectives the difference between anodyne and soporific
is that anodyne is capable]] of [[soothe|soothing or eliminating pain while soporific is tending to induce sleep.As nouns the difference between anodyne and soporific
is that anodyne is (pharmacology) any medicine or other agent that relieves pain while soporific is something inducing sleep, especially a drug.anodyne
English
Adjective
(en adjective)- Many a time has the vapor of ether been inhaled for the relief of oppressed lungs; many a time has the sought relief been thus obtained; and just so many times has the discovery of the wonderful anodyne properties of this gas, as affecting all bodily suffering, been brushed past and overlooked.
- The citrate is the most efficient as an alkali, but irritates some stomachs, the liquor the most anodyne , the acetate the most diuretic.
- Classical music is rather anodyne .
- It all became so routine, so anodyne , so dull.
- States typically like to stick to anodyne messages, like saving wildflowers or animals. But every so often a controversy crops up.
Noun
(en noun)- 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.
Derived terms
* anodynia * anodynousReferences
* *Anagrams
*soporific
English
Alternative forms
* soporifick (obsolete)Noun
(en noun)- The doctor prescribed a soporific to help the patient sleep.
Synonyms
* See alsoAdjective
(en adjective)- The professor delivered a soporific lecture.
- For we are not here to understand, as perhaps some have, that an author actually falls asleep while he is writing. It is true, that readers are too apt to be so overtaken; To say the truth, these soporific parts are so many scenes of serious artfully interwoven, in order to contrast and set off the rest;
- It is said that the effect of eating too much lettuce is “soporific'.” ''I'' have never felt sleepy after eating lettuces; but then ''I'' am not a rabbit. They certainly had a very ' soporific effect upon the Flopsy Bunnies!