Overview of noun anesthetic

The noun anesthetic has 1 sense

• anesthetic, anaesthetic, anesthetic agent, anaesthetic agent -- (a drug that causes temporary loss of bodily sensations)

Overview of adj anesthetic

The adj anesthetic has 2 senses

• anaesthetic, anesthetic -- (relating to or producing insensibility)


• anesthetic, anaesthetic -- (characterized by insensibility; "the young girls are in a state of possession--blind and deaf and anesthetic"; "an anesthetic state")