Anodyne

/ˈæn.ə.daɪn/ adjective hard

Deliberately unlikely to cause offense or provoke strong feeling; bland and inoffensive.

Rather than address the scandal directly, the CEO issued an anodyne statement about 'moving forward together.'

Memory Trick

The word once described a medicine that dulls pain; an anodyne comment is designed to numb any conflict rather than confront it.

Antonyms

Caustic

Appears In

GRE — GRE Vocabulary — Group 2