over-the-counter medicine

1. 1.

   a drug that is sold without a prescription

   Synonymsover-the-counter drug

   Antonymsprescription medicine

   Broadermedicine

Questions about over-the-counter medicine

What does over-the-counter medicine mean?

over-the-counter medicine means "a drug that is sold without a prescription".

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

Close synonyms include over-the-counter 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.

What is the opposite of over-the-counter medicine?

The recorded antonyms are prescription medicine.

Is over-the-counter medicine a common word?

over-the-counter medicine 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.