Restorative vs Anodyne - What's the difference?
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Something with restoring properties.
(euphemistic) An alcoholic drink, especially with tonic.
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Serving to restore.
* Milton
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:
Restorative is a related term of anodyne.
As nouns the difference between restorative and anodyne
is that restorative is something with restoring properties while anodyne is (pharmacology) any medicine or other agent that relieves pain.As adjectives the difference between restorative and anodyne
is that restorative is serving to restore while anodyne is capable]] of [[soothe|soothing or eliminating pain.restorative
English
Noun
(en noun)References
* OED2Adjective
(head)- After a long day working in the fields Clarence took comfort in a restorative pint of beer.
- Destroys life's enemy, / Hunger, with sweet restorative delight.
Anagrams
*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.