Synonyms for medicine
Most common
Synonyms by meaning
Noun
1. Medicament
medicament, drug, medication, physic, cure, remedy, antidote, appliance
2. Prescription — any treatment or cure
prescription, regimen, course, program US, programme UK
Other
pharmaceutical, therapeutics, music, panacea, nostrum, materia medica dated, leechcraft rare
Definitions
- n. 1
Any treatment or cure.
A legislative remedy might be some harsh medicine; is that cure worse than the ill?
- n. 2
A substance which specifically promotes healing when ingested or consumed in some way; a pharmaceutical drug.
This medicine has fewer adverse effects than others in its drug class.
Forms
- Plural
- medicines → medicaments, drugs, medications, physics…
Example sentences
- drug Recreational drug use inspires many urban legends.
- medication I need to go buy the medication Tom and Mary need.
- physic Temperance is the best physic.
- prescription Let me write you a prescription for some medicine.
- regimen He's encouraged to maintain a strict eating regimen.
Popularity over time
| Word | 1850 → 2019 | Trend |
|---|---|---|
| medicine | steady | |
| drug | rising | |
| medication | rising | |
| physic | steady | |
| medicament | falling | |
| prescription | rising |
Use in printed books, per decade from 1850 to 2019.
By length
- 4 letters
- drug1, cure1
- 5 letters
- music2
- 6 letters
- course1, remedy3, physic
- 7 letters
- program2, regimen3, panacea4, nostrum
- 8 letters
- antidote3
- 9 letters
- programme2, appliance3
- 10 letters
- medication4, medicament, leechcraft
- 12 letters
- prescription3, therapeutics4
- 14 letters
- pharmaceutical5
The small number after each word is its number of syllables (music2 = 2 syllables).
In other languages
- Français
- médicament
- Italiano
- medicazione
- Español
- medicamento
- Català
- medicament