Word.ws English Dictionary

pilulous

pilulous adjective: resembling a pill or pilule.

Adjective

pilulous (comparative more pilulous, superlative most pilulous)

  1. Resembling a pill or pilule.
    • Has any one ever pinched into its pilulous smallness the cobweb of pre-matrimonial acquaintanceship?1871, George Eliot [pseudonym; Mary Ann Evans], chapter II, in Middlemarch […], volume I, Edinburgh; London: William Blackwood and Sons, →OCLC, book I, page 29

Forms of pilulous

comparativemore pilulous
superlativemost pilulous

Origin of pilulous

From Latin pilula (“a pill”) + -ous.

Questions about pilulous

What does pilulous mean?
Pilulous means resembling a pill or pilule.
What part of speech is pilulous?
Pilulous is an adjective.

Words near pilulous in the dictionary

  1. Piltzville
  2. pilu
  3. pilular
  4. pilule
  5. pilules
  6. pilulous
  7. pilum
  8. pilumnid
  9. pilumnids
  10. Pilumnus
  11. pilums

Source and license

Adapted from Wiktionary: pilulous (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.

Last updated:

Cite this entry: “pilulous.” Word.ws, https://word.ws/pilulous. Based on Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.