anodyneとは 意味・読み方・使い方

語源

From 中期英語 anodine, from Medieval Latin anōdynos (“stilling or relieving pain”), from Ancient Greek ἀνώδυνος (anṓdunos, “free from pain”), from ἀν- (an-, “without”) + ὀδύνη (odúnē, “pain”).

Adjective sense “noncontentious” probably through French anodin (“harmless, trivial”), of same origin.

発音

• (General American, Received Pronunciation) IPA: /ˈæn.ə.daɪn/
• 韻: -aɪn

形容詞

anodyne (comparative more anodyne, superlative most anodyne)

1. (pharmacology) Capable of soothing or eliminating pain. [from 16th c.]
   • 1847 June 12, Littell's Living Age, volume 13, number 161, page 483:

     Many a time has the vapor of ether been inhaled for the relief of oppressed lungs; many a time has the sought relief been thus obtained; and just so many times has the discovery of the wonderful anodyne properties of this gas, as affecting all bodily suffering, been brushed past and overlooked.

   • 1910, Edward L. Keyes, Diseases of the Genito-Urinary Organs, page 211:

     The citrate is the most efficient as an alkali, but irritates some stomachs, the liquor the most anodyne, the acetate the most diuretic.

2. (figuratively) Soothing or relaxing. [from 18th c.]

   Classical music is rather anodyne.

3. (by extension) Noncontentious, blandly agreeable, unlikely to cause offence or debate. [from 20th c.]

   Synonyms: bland, inoffensive, noncontentious

   • 20 May 2003, The Guardian:

     It all became so routine, so anodyne, so dull.

   • 2010 December 9, “Rattled”, in The Economist:

     States typically like to stick to anodyne messages, like saving wildflowers or animals. But every so often a controversy crops up.

   • 2014 May 25, Crispian Balmer, “Pope Francis Poised To Arrive in West Bank”, in The Forward‎:

     The Vatican supports the vision of an independent Palestine living in peace alongside Israel, and Francis on Saturday called for a “just solution” to the conflict – the sort of neutral, anodyne language he is expected to adhere to during the stay.

同意語

• (pharmacology): See Thesaurus:analgesic

派生語

名詞

anodyne (plural anodynes)

1. (pharmacology) Any medicine or other agent that relieves pain.
2. (figuratively) A source of relaxation or comfort.
   • 1848 November – 1850 December, William Makepeace Thackeray, chapter 16, in The History of Pendennis. […], volume (please specify |volume=I or II), London: Bradbury and Evans, […], published 1849–1850, →OCLC:

     Nor do I mean to say that Virtue is not Virtue because it is never tempted to go astray; only that dulness is a much finer gift than we give it credit for being; and that some people are very lucky whom Nature has endowed with a good store of that great anodyne.

   • 1891, Oscar Wilde, chapter VII, in The Picture of Dorian Gray, London, New York, N.Y., Melbourne, Vic.: Ward Lock & Co., →OCLC:

     The air was heavy with the perfume of the flowers, and their beauty seemed to bring him an anodyne for his pain.

   • 1929, Virginia Woolf, A Room of One's Own, page 79:

     So, with a sigh, because novels so often provide an anodyne and not an antidote, glide one into torpid slumbers instead of rousing one with a burning brand.

派生語

参照

• “anodyne”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.
• Douglas Harper (2001–2025) “anodyne”, in Online Etymology Dictionary.
• “anodyne”, in Lexico, Dictionary.com; Oxford University Press, 2019–2022.

アナグラム

• annoyed

形容詞

anōdyne

1. vocative masculine singular of anōdynos or anōdynus