-pilled
-pilled suffix: forming adjectives denoting dedication to or a heightened awareness of something.
Suffix
-pilled (adjective-forming suffix, comparative more -pilled, superlative most -pilled)
- Forming adjectives denoting dedication to or a heightened awareness of something.
- bread + -pilled → breadpilled (referring to The Conquest of Bread and anarcho-communism)
- No longer simply an allegory for the trans experience in the Matrix, or right wing radicalisation on shady corners of the internet, the 'pilled' suffix has moved beyond internet-speak and has become a part of our everyday vernacular. Have you discovered the benefits of fish oil? You're fish...[2022 June 3, Günseli Yalcinkaya, “Are you content? How the internet rewired our brains”, in Dazed, archived from the original on 16 Dec 2022
Examples of -pilled in a sentence
- Like a lot of the online-pilled, my brain has been rotted by memes, which have become cornerstones of the way I talk to my friends who suffer from the same affliction.2023 January 9, Lauren O'Neil, “I Simply Love To Put A Little 'X' After Everything”, in Refinery29, archived from the original on 16 Jan...
- And while [Mark] Zuckerberg likes LeCun's world model research, the crowd who were hired for the company's new superintelligence push are “completely LLM-pilled”.2026 January 3, Melissa Heikkilä, “Lunch with the FT: Yann LeCun”, in FT Weekend (Life & Arts section), London: The Financial Times Ltd....
Forms of -pilled
| comparative | more -pilled |
|---|---|
| superlative | most -pilled |
Origin of -pilled
Influenced by redpilled, blackpilled, etc. whose stems refer to the colour of the notional pill rather than their actual effects. Popularized from a scene in the 1999 film The Matrix.
Words formed from -pilled
Questions about -pilled
- What does -pilled mean?
- -pilled means forming adjectives denoting dedication to or a heightened awareness of something.
- How do you use -pilled in a sentence?
- Like a lot of the online-pilled, my brain has been rotted by memes, which have become cornerstones of the way I talk to my friends who suffer from the same affliction.
- What part of speech is -pilled?
- -pilled is a suffix.
Words near -pilled in the dictionary
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