placebo
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
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Senses
Sense 1 noun
an innocuous or inert medication; given as a pacifier or to the control group in experiments on the efficacy of a drug
Types & categories
- medication hypernym
- active placebo hyponym
Sense 2 noun
(Roman Catholic Church) vespers of the office for the dead
Types & categories
- vesper hypernym
Related & opposite
- Western Church domain topic
Table view of this graph
| Sense | Relation | Group | Word |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | hypernym | Types & categories | medication |
| 1 | hyponym | Types & categories | active placebo |
| 2 | domain topic | Related & opposite | Western Church |
| 2 | hypernym | Types & categories | vesper |