nonanesthetic

English

Alternative forms

Etymology

From non- +‎ anesthetic.

Adjective

nonanesthetic (not comparable)

  1. Not anesthetic.
    • 2007 February 18, Lawrence Downes, “Running Into Fences”, in New York Times‎[1]:
      He seeks to widen them somehow, by doing something else, something tactile, nonanesthetic, something to get adrenaline moving in his numbed veins.

Noun

nonanesthetic (plural nonanesthetics)

  1. A drug without anesthetic effects.
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