nonprescription

1. 1.

   purchasable without a doctor's prescription

   “nonprescription drugs”

   “an over-the-counter cold remedy”

   Synonymsover-the-counter

   Antonymsprescription

   medicine

Questions about nonprescription

What does nonprescription mean?

nonprescription means "purchasable without a doctor's prescription".

How many syllables are in nonprescription?

nonprescription has 4 syllables: non-pre-scrip-tion. The stress falls on "scrip". In IPA it is /ˌnɑnpɹəˈskɹɪpʃən/.

What is another word for nonprescription?

Close synonyms include over-the-counter. 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.

What is the opposite of nonprescription?

The recorded antonyms are prescription.

Is nonprescription a common word?

nonprescription 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.

What rhymes with nonprescription?

7 words rhyme with nonprescription. Rhymes are matched on the phonemes from the last stressed vowel onward, which is the definition a reader has in their head.