pill
noun
Key Types & categories Parts & wholes Related & opposite
- Word type
- noun
- verb
- adjective
- adverb
- Line style
- core relation
- instance, member or derived
- substance, domain or see-also
- Direction
- arrow points to the broader concept
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Senses
Sense 1 noun
something that resembles a tablet of medicine in shape or size
Types & categories
- thing hypernym
- vitamin pill hyponym
Sense 2 noun
a dose of medicine in the form of a small pellet
Types & categories
- dose hypernym
- bolus hyponym
- capsule hyponym
- dragee hyponym
- sleeping pill hyponym
Sense 3 noun
a unpleasant or tiresome person
Types & categories
- unpleasant person hypernym
Sense 4 noun
something unpleasant or offensive that must be tolerated or endured
his competitor's success was a bitter pill to take
Types & categories
- encumbrance hypernym
Sense 5 noun
a contraceptive in the form of a pill containing estrogen and progestin to inhibit ovulation and so prevent conception
Types & categories
Parts & wholes
- progesterone substance meronym
Table view of this graph
| Sense | Relation | Group | Word |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | hypernym | Types & categories | thing |
| 1 | hyponym | Types & categories | vitamin pill |
| 2 | hypernym | Types & categories | dose |
| 2 | hyponym | Types & categories | bolus |
| 2 | hyponym | Types & categories | capsule |
| 2 | hyponym | Types & categories | dragee |
| 2 | hyponym | Types & categories | sleeping pill |
| 3 | hypernym | Types & categories | unpleasant person |
| 4 | hypernym | Types & categories | encumbrance |
| 5 | substance meronym | Parts & wholes | progesterone |
| 5 | hypernym | Types & categories | contraceptive |
| 5 | hyponym | Types & categories | Demulen |
| 5 | hyponym | Types & categories | Enovid |
| 5 | hyponym | Types & categories | Loestrin |
| 5 | hyponym | Types & categories | Lo/Ovral |
| 5 | hyponym | Types & categories | Micronor |
| 5 | hyponym | Types & categories | Modicon |
| 5 | hyponym | Types & categories | Norinyl |
| 5 | hyponym | Types & categories | Norlestrin |
| 5 | hyponym | Types & categories | Nor-Q-D |
| 5 | hyponym | Types & categories | Ovocon |
| 5 | hyponym | Types & categories | Ovral |
| 5 | hyponym | Types & categories | Ovrette |
| 5 | hyponym | Types & categories | Ovulen |