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blue pill

blue pill noun: synonym of blue mass (“pill of prepared mercury”).

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
    • "[…] I'm getting old and it doesn't agree with me. I know I'll be fearfully cranky by the time I'm sixty. But perhaps all I need is a course of blue pills."1909, Lucy Maud Montgomery, chapter 27, in Anne of Avonlea
    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

Verb

blue pill (third-person singular simple present blue pills, present participle blue pilling, simple past and past participle blue pilled)

  1. (transitive) To reject the red pill philosophy.
    Antonyms:
    red pill

blue pill meaning in Tamil

blue pill in Tamil

ரசமெழுகு

Synonyms of blue pill

Antonyms

Forms of blue pill

Noun
pluralblue pills
alternative formbluepill
alternative formblue-pill
Verb
third-person singular presentblue pills
present participleblue pilling
past participleblue pilled
pastblue pilled

Origin of blue pill

(rejection of the red pill): From a scene in the film The Matrix (1999), where the main character, who lives in a virtual world known as the Matrix, is given a choice between a red pill that will allow him to learn the truth about the Matrix and a blue pill that will return him to his simulated life.

Questions about blue pill

What does blue pill mean?
Blue pill means synonym of blue mass (“pill of prepared mercury”).
What is blue pill in Tamil?
Blue pill in Tamil is ரசமெழுகு. See Blue pill meaning in Tamil.
What part of speech is blue pill?
Blue pill can be a noun or a verb.
What is the plural of blue pill?
The plural of blue pill is blue pills.

Words near blue pill in the dictionary

  1. blue petrel
  2. blue pigeon
  3. blue pigeon flyer
  4. blue pigeon flyers
  5. blue pigeons
  6. blue pill
  7. blue pilled
  8. blue pilling
  9. blue pills
  10. blue pine
  11. blue pipe

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Adapted from Wiktionary: blue pill (page history and authors); blue pill (Tamil Wiktionary) (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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