PILL Synonyms: 132 Similar and Opposite Words

pill

noun

Definition of pill

as in tablet

a small mass containing medicine to be taken orally you'll have to take one of these pills every six hours for your flu

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as in dog

a person whose behavior is offensive to others she can be such a pill when things don't go her way

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Recent Examples of pill Magnesium glycinate is not expected to work like a sleeping pill. — Morgan Pearson, Verywell Health, 7 July 2026 Over that period, affiliates dispensed about 25% fewer packs of birth control pills and conducted about 20% fewer breast cancer exams than the previous year. — ABC News, 6 July 2026 Being in an environment like that had to make Croatia's 2-1 loss that much harder of a pill to swallow for the 26-year-old, who currently plays for Brooklyn FC of the USL Super League. — Sean Joseph Outkick, FOXNews.com, 5 July 2026 My mom influenced me to start shopping at Vuori after raving over the buttery soft material that stays pill-free. — Rylee Johnston, PEOPLE, 4 July 2026 See All Example Sentences for pill

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Noun

Wild Orchard is beginning to roll out additional ways to consume its green tea, including single-serve shots and concentrated tablets–all different vessels to retrieve these hyper-intensive health benefits with utmost efficiency.

— Andrew Watman, Forbes.com, 8 July 2026
Lupita Villalobos, who teaches 3-year-olds at a pre-K in Duncanville, Texas, told me that the district gives each student a tablet to use during school.

— Rose Horowitch, The Atlantic, 8 July 2026

Definition of tablet

Noun

Sit, who went by the first name Tony, operated Happy K9 Academy and the dogs were in his care when they were kept in crates in a hot van and died, the district attorney’s office said.

— Phil Helsel, NBC news, 11 July 2026
When an Instagram video with nearly 100 million views likened his appearance to a green onion — its wiry roots standing in as his hair — Haaland responded in the comments with a side-eyeing dog GIF.

— ABC News, ABC News, 11 July 2026

Definition of dog

Noun

The capsule features two Eberjey classic women’s silhouettes with an exclusive wave print on a Memorable Blue custom hue, with navy piping details.

— Lisa Lockwood, Footwear News, 9 July 2026
As just one example, SpaceX Crew Dragon capsules and Roscosmos Soyuz spacecraft are the only two vehicles that bring astronauts to the station right now.

— Elizabeth Howell, Space.com, 9 July 2026

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Bates plans to expand that menu in the new brick-and-mortar restaurant, adding dishes like jerk catfish pasta and Louisiana Cajun cream sauce over dirty rice.

— Joey Schamber, jsonline.com, 8 July 2026
For instance, there are glazed pork belly chunks served on crispy tostones, tuna tataki with a jerk-spice rub, and a bright, citrusy conch salad.

— Chadner Navarro, Travel + Leisure, 29 June 2026

Definition of jerk

Noun

Perhaps most astonishingly, the movie manages to make creepy clowns — that shopworn trope — genuinely frightening again.

— Declan Gallagher, Entertainment Weekly, 7 July 2026
The group demonstrated near the Washington Monument and was met by a few counter protestors, one of which played clown music throughout the majority of the demonstration.

— Antonio Pequeño IV, Forbes.com, 4 July 2026

Definition of clown

Noun

Clooney might be known as the joker of the two.

— Stephanie Sengwe, PEOPLE, 22 May 2026
Like any public hearing, there were a few jokers who had some strange outbursts, but the majority of the over a dozen speakers weren’t satisfied with Gower’s presentation and used their times to ask questions of the owners as to what has taken so long with this project.

— Brian Welk, IndieWire, 12 May 2026

Definition of joker

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There, students can see animals including snakes, axolotls, tiger salamanders, turtles, toads, frogs, tarantulas, millipedes, bunnies and owls, Wieser said.

— Camryn Dadey, Sacbee.com, 5 July 2026
These birds will eventually be released on Palmyra Atoll, a brown snake-free island in the Pacific Ocean.

— Finch Walker, USA Today, 3 July 2026