— anodynic /an'euh din"ik/ , adj.
/an"euh duyn'/ , n.
1. a medicine that relieves or allays pain.
2. anything that relieves distress or pain: The music was an anodyne to his grief.
adj.
3. relieving pain.
4. soothing to the mind or feelings.
[ 1535-45; anodynus anódynos painless, equiv. to an- AN- 1 + odyn- (s. of odýne pain, with lengthening of o ) + -os adj. suffix ]