- anesthetic, anaesthetic - characterized by insensibility; "the young girls are in a state of possession--blind and deaf and anesthetic"; "an anesthetic state"
Antonyms: sensible, sensitive (indirect, via insensible)
- anesthetic, anaesthetic, anesthetic agent, anaesthetic agent - a drug that causes temporary loss of bodily sensations
--1 is a kind of drug
--1 has particulars:general anesthetic, general anaesthetic; intravenous anesthetic; local anesthetic, local anaesthetic, local, topical anesthetic, topical anaesthetic; spinal anesthetic, spinal anaesthetic Derived forms: verb anaesthetize1, verb anaesthetise1