homeopath

noun

ho·​meo·​path ˈhō-mē-ə-ˌpath 

plural homeopaths

: a practitioner of homeopathy or homeopathic medicine

Homeopaths prescribe minute amounts of natural substances—from common herbs to crushed bee to iron phosphate—that in large amounts would produce symptoms similar to those the patient is experiencing.

—Bonnie Henderson

Examples of homeopath in a Sentence

Recent Examples on the Web

For decades after the nation’s founding, doctors had competition from homeopaths, herbalists, apothecaries, midwives, and religious healers—not to mention mothers. — Dhruv Khullar, New Yorker, 19 Dec. 2025

In 2022, federal authorities sentenced a homeopath in California to nearly three years in prison for selling bogus COVID-19 immunization pellets and for falsifying COVID-19 vaccination records. — Beth Mole, Ars Technica, 18 Jan. 2024

The pellets Breen administered were taken orally as a series and supplied by an out-of-state homeopath, the department said in a release. — Natalie Kainz, NBC News, 18 Jan. 2024

Word History

Etymology

borrowed from German Homöopath, probably by back-formation from Homöopathie homeopathy

First Known Use

1824, in the meaning defined above

Rhymes for homeopath

• aftermath
• multipath
• psychopath
• bloodbath
• footpath
• towpath
• warpath
• hath
• lath
• math
• path
• rath

Medical Definition

homeopath

noun

ho·​meo·​path

variants or British homoeopath

ˈhō-mē-ə-ˌpath 

: a practitioner of homeopathy or homeopathic medicine