Definitions

from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.

  • adjective Analgesic.

from The Century Dictionary.

  • Alleviating pain; anodyne.
  • noun A medicine or an application fitted or tending to alleviate pain; an anodyne.

from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.

  • adjective (Med.) Alleviating pain.

from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.

  • adjective medicine alleviating pain
  • noun Any medicine to alleviate pain; an anodyne.

Etymologies

from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition

[ant(i)– + Greek algos, pain + –ic.]

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anti- + Ancient Greek pain: compare French antalgique.

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Examples

  • All in all, I've decided the giant blister that left me with a slightly antalgic gait towards the end of the convention, which I earned from running back and forth between the Delta and the Palais des congrès de Montréal, was worth it.

    Brain Dump Ulysses 2009

  • - Vitamin B12 at high doses is recommended as an antalgic by certain manufacturers (2 mg, 10 mg, 20 mg/ampoule): this antalgic activity has not been proven.

    Chapter 4 1993

  • They also stated that there would be no signs of neurologic involvement or antalgic posture and no aggravation of pain from sitting, flexion or coughing / sneezing.

    BioMed Central - Latest articles 2009

  • Clinical disorders of movement (antalgic gait with hip pain)

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  • Yet though content** f antalgic image flics From the bright mirrors of the learn * d and wife.

    A Complete Edition of the Poets of Great Britain.. 1794

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