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blue-pill

blue-pill is the alternative form of blue pill.

Meaning of blue pill

Noun

blue pill (plural blue pills)

  1. (historical) Synonym of blue mass (“pill of prepared mercury”).
    • He scarcely knew a single soul in the metropolis: and were it not for his doctor, and the society of his blue-pill, and his liver complaint, he must have died of loneliness.1848, William Makepeace Thackeray, chapter 3, in Vanity Fair
    Synonyms:
    blue mass
  2. (slang) A pill of sildenafil (Viagra), used to treat erectile dysfunction.
  3. Rejection of the red pill philosophy.
    Antonyms:
    red pill

See all 4 meanings of blue pill

Forms of blue-pill

Noun
pluralblue-pills
Verb
third-person singular presentblue-pills
present participleblue-pilling
past participleblue-pilled
pastblue-pilled

Questions about blue-pill

What is blue-pill the alternative form of?
Blue-pill is the alternative form of blue pill.

Words near blue-pill in the dictionary

  1. blue-penciled
  2. blue-penciling
  3. blue-pencilled
  4. blue-pencilling
  5. blue-pencils
  6. blue-pill
  7. blue-pilled
  8. blue-pilling
  9. blue-pills
  10. blue-plate
  11. blue-plate special

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Adapted from Wiktionary: blue-pill (page history and authors); blue pill (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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