- not likely to cause offence or disagreement and somewhat dull不得罪人的; 有点乏味的：
anodyne music.
平淡乏味的音乐。
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- a painkilling drug or medicine止痛剂。
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- figurative something which alleviates a person's mental distress〈喻〉减轻精神痛苦之物：
an anodyne to the misery she had put him through.
对于她让他经历的痛苦, 这是一种慰藉。
词源
mid 16th cent.: via Latin from Greek anōdunos 'painless'， from an- 'without' + odunē 'pain'.