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Definition of anodyne in English: anodyneadjectiveˈanədʌɪnˈænəˌdaɪn Not likely to cause offence or disagreement and somewhat dull. 不得罪人的；有点乏味的 平淡乏味的音乐。 Example sentencesExamples - So, instead, we got a relatively neutral, anodyne report from the committee.
- Overall, it's a little too anodyne and pleasant.
- In essence, they are largely anodyne affairs and an opportunity for leaders to fire up the troops before going into battle.
- Under contract to Rank, he played so many anodyne heroes that he became ‘the idol of the Odeons‘.
- I just find their music very anodyne, its very ‘consistent’, it lacks variation and is very safe - and that's the problem for the film.
- It is not any part of my purpose to present a bland or anodyne view of the Bible.
- Faced between one party with bland anodyne policies crafted not to offend anyone, and another with evil policies which it truly believes in, voters will always pick the party with the courage of its convictions.
- In front of millions of his viewers he is taking a moral position - a far cry from the days of anodyne news reports which assiduously avoided taking positions.
- The whole film strays dangerously close to anodyne children's television fare at this stage.
- At other moments - for all the Chorus's endeavours - the concert is let down by anodyne music and lyrics.
- ‘He would say anodyne things that didn't offend people,’ says Scottish historian Richard Finlay.
- That memoir has now become an even more anodyne film, to be released in Britain next week.
- The sound effects - such as the perfect hollow pop every time Sara takes her pills - work in harmony with the images to convey the dull repetition and anodyne ritual that make up any addiction.
- Most attendees, however, will probably have more anodyne concerns to tussle with: like where did they leave their car in the first place, and how to drive with six inches of mud on their boots.
- Once in a while, anodyne comment emerges in the mainstream about the ‘dumbing down’ of news.
- The film is a cute, anodyne fantasy of 70s rock, based on his adventures as a kid reporter with Rolling Stone.
- If the utterly mainstream, occasionally anodyne nature of the entertainer's work makes him hard to accept as an enormously significant black role model, so too does his apparent oblivion to racial politics.
- It said that it had merely offered bland anodyne advice that it would offer to anybody who asked for it, and said that what happened next was certainly nothing to do with it.
- I want to be able to turn on Radio 1 and hear you playing your own unique music one day, stopping that flow of anodyne pop nothingness.
- This debut album is breathtakingly anodyne stuff.
Synonyms bland, inoffensive, innocuous, neutral, unobjectionable, unexceptionable, unremarkable, commonplace, dull, tedious, run-of-the-mill
nounˈanədʌɪnˈænəˌdaɪn A painkilling drug or medicine. 止痛剂 she had even refused anodynes figurative 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。 Example sentencesExamples - It is an anti-inflammatory, tonic astringent, diaphoretic, stomachic, nervine, anodyne and antiseptic.
- The root, which is rather toxic, has anodyne and soporific properties.
- It displays diuretic, anodyne, styptic, digestive, antihelminthic, expectorant, antipyretic, and antiemetic properties.
Synonyms painkiller, painkilling drug, analgesic, pain reliever, palliative
OriginMid 16th century: via Latin from Greek anōdunos 'painless', from an- 'without' + odunē 'pain'. Definition of anodyne in US English: anodyneadjectiveˈænəˌdaɪnˈanəˌdīn Not likely to provoke dissent or offense; inoffensive, often deliberately so. 平淡乏味的音乐。 I attempted to keep the conversation as anodyne as possible Example sentencesExamples - Most attendees, however, will probably have more anodyne concerns to tussle with: like where did they leave their car in the first place, and how to drive with six inches of mud on their boots.
- In front of millions of his viewers he is taking a moral position - a far cry from the days of anodyne news reports which assiduously avoided taking positions.
- The whole film strays dangerously close to anodyne children's television fare at this stage.
- This debut album is breathtakingly anodyne stuff.
- Faced between one party with bland anodyne policies crafted not to offend anyone, and another with evil policies which it truly believes in, voters will always pick the party with the courage of its convictions.
- So, instead, we got a relatively neutral, anodyne report from the committee.
- It is not any part of my purpose to present a bland or anodyne view of the Bible.
- Under contract to Rank, he played so many anodyne heroes that he became ‘the idol of the Odeons‘.
- I want to be able to turn on Radio 1 and hear you playing your own unique music one day, stopping that flow of anodyne pop nothingness.
- ‘He would say anodyne things that didn't offend people,’ says Scottish historian Richard Finlay.
- I just find their music very anodyne, its very ‘consistent’, it lacks variation and is very safe - and that's the problem for the film.
- If the utterly mainstream, occasionally anodyne nature of the entertainer's work makes him hard to accept as an enormously significant black role model, so too does his apparent oblivion to racial politics.
- Once in a while, anodyne comment emerges in the mainstream about the ‘dumbing down’ of news.
- The sound effects - such as the perfect hollow pop every time Sara takes her pills - work in harmony with the images to convey the dull repetition and anodyne ritual that make up any addiction.
- At other moments - for all the Chorus's endeavours - the concert is let down by anodyne music and lyrics.
- It said that it had merely offered bland anodyne advice that it would offer to anybody who asked for it, and said that what happened next was certainly nothing to do with it.
- The film is a cute, anodyne fantasy of 70s rock, based on his adventures as a kid reporter with Rolling Stone.
- In essence, they are largely anodyne affairs and an opportunity for leaders to fire up the troops before going into battle.
- That memoir has now become an even more anodyne film, to be released in Britain next week.
- Overall, it's a little too anodyne and pleasant.
Synonyms bland, inoffensive, innocuous, neutral, unobjectionable, unexceptionable, unremarkable, commonplace, dull, tedious, run-of-the-mill
nounˈænəˌdaɪnˈanəˌdīn A painkilling drug or medicine. 止痛剂 Example sentencesExamples - The root, which is rather toxic, has anodyne and soporific properties.
- It displays diuretic, anodyne, styptic, digestive, antihelminthic, expectorant, antipyretic, and antiemetic properties.
- It is an anti-inflammatory, tonic astringent, diaphoretic, stomachic, nervine, anodyne and antiseptic.
Synonyms painkiller, painkilling drug, analgesic, pain reliever, palliative
OriginMid 16th century: via Latin from Greek anōdunos ‘painless’, from an- ‘without’ + odunē ‘pain’. |