over-the-counter drug

Questions about over-the-counter drug

What is another word for over-the-counter drug?

It depends which over-the-counter drug you mean. In the sense “a drug that is sold without a prescription”, the synonyms are over-the-counter medicine. Across all 1 sense there are 1 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 over-the-counter drug?

The recorded antonym is prescription drug. Opposites are sense-specific too: this page shows which meaning each one is the opposite of, because a word rarely has a single opposite that holds for all of its senses.

Where do the synonyms for over-the-counter 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 over-the-counter drug

• Full entry for over-the-counter drugAll 1 sense, with examples, usage labels, syllables and pronunciation.
• Rhymes for over-the-counter 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.