medicinal drug

Questions about medicinal drug

What is another word for medicinal drug?

It depends which medicinal drug you mean. In the sense “(medicine) something that treats or prevents or alleviates the symptoms of disease”, the synonyms are medicine, medication, medicament. Across all 1 sense there are 3 distinct synonyms, and they are not interchangeable with each other — this page lists them under the sense each one belongs to.

What is the opposite of medicinal drug?

WordNet records no antonym for medicinal drug. Antonymy in WordNet is a relation between specific word forms rather than between concepts, so it is recorded only where lexicographers judged the pairing direct. An absence here means none was recorded, not that none can be imagined.

Where do the synonyms for medicinal drug come from?

From Princeton University's WordNet, a lexical database maintained by lexicographers since 1985. A synonym here means a word form that shares a synset with this word — a set of forms interchangeable in one recorded context. Nothing on this page is generated by a language model.

Other views of medicinal drug

• Full entry for medicinal drugAll 1 sense, with examples, usage labels, syllables and pronunciation.
• Rhymes for medicinal drugWhether this word can be rhymed at all — it is not in the pronouncing dictionary.
• Thesaurus homeHow WordNet synsets work, and the collections built for synonym work.