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Sadistic vs Sedative - What's the difference?

sadistic | sedative |

As adjectives the difference between sadistic and sedative

is that sadistic is delighting in or feeling pleasure from the pain of others while sedative is .

sadistic

English

Adjective

(en adjective)
  • Delighting in or feeling pleasure from the pain of others.
  • * 22 March 2012 , Scott Tobias, AV Club The Hunger Games [http://www.avclub.com/articles/the-hunger-games,71293/]
    • Together, with the help of the drunkard Haymitch (Woody Harrelson), the only District 12 citizen ever to win the Games, they challenge tributes that range from sadistic volunteers to crafty kids like the pint-sized Rue (Amandla Stenberg) to the truly helpless and soon-to-be-dead.
  • Of behaviour which gives pleasure in the pain of others.

    • Related terms

    * (l)

    sedative

    English

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • An agent or drug that sedates, having a calming or soothing effect, or inducing sleep.

    • Synonyms

    * (agents that cause sleep) sleeping pill, soporific, tranquilizer * (other agents that sedate) anxiolytic, depressant, downer

    Adjective

    (en adjective)
  • Calming]], soothing, inducing sleep, [[tranquilize, tranquilizing

    • Synonyms

    * ataractic * ataraxic

    References

    * (wikipedia "sedative")

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