contraceptive pill

Questions about contraceptive pill

What does contraceptive pill mean?

contraceptive pill means "a contraceptive in the form of a pill containing estrogen and progestin to inhibit ovulation and so prevent conception".

What is another word for contraceptive pill?

Close synonyms include pill, birth control pill, oral contraceptive pill, oral contraceptive, anovulatory drug. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is contraceptive pill a common word?

contraceptive pill is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.