Comforter vs Anodyne - What's the difference?
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A person who comforts someone who is suffering.
* Shakespeare
(US) A padded cover for a bed, duvet, continental quilt.
(old fashioned, mostly UK) A woollen scarf for winter.
* Popular Science Monthly
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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:
Comforter is a related term of anodyne.
As a proper noun comforter
is (christianity) the holy spirit, the holy ghost.As an adjective anodyne is
capable]] of [[soothe|soothing or eliminating pain.As a noun anodyne is
(pharmacology) any medicine or other agent that relieves pain.comforter
English
Noun
(en noun)- Let no comforter delight mine ear / But such a one whose wrongs do suit with mine.
- The American schoolboy takes off his comforter and unbuttons his jacket before going in for a snowball fight.
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Synonyms
* (person who comforts) consoler * (padded bed cover) duvet, (continental) quiltAnagrams
*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.