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say it: pil
pill is a noun meaning "something that resembles a tablet of medicine in shape or size". It is pronounced /ˈpɪl/ — pil. It carries 5 recorded senses.
a unpleasant or tiresome person
something unpleasant or offensive that must be tolerated or endured
“his competitor's success was a bitter pill to take”
a contraceptive in the form of a pill containing estrogen and progestin to inhibit ovulation and so prevent conception
Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.
Definitions, synonyms and semantic relations for pill come from Princeton University’s WordNet. The pronunciation comes from the CMU Pronouncing Dictionary. Commonness is measured against a corpus of everyday English. Full sources and licences.