prescription medicine

1. 1.

   a drug that is available only with written instructions from a doctor or dentist to a pharmacist

   “he told the doctor that he had been taking his prescription regularly”

   Synonymsprescription drugprescriptionethical drug

   Antonymsover-the-counter medicine

   Broadermedicine

   Narrowerrefill

Questions about prescription medicine

What does prescription medicine mean?

prescription medicine means "a drug that is available only with written instructions from a doctor or dentist to a pharmacist".

What is another word for prescription medicine?

Close synonyms include prescription drug, prescription, ethical 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 prescription medicine?

The recorded antonyms are over-the-counter medicine.

Is prescription medicine a common word?

prescription 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.