pilulous

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adjective

Resembling a pill or pilule.

OriginLatin pilula →
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Meanings

adjectivepilulous (comparative more pilulous, superlative most 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

Origin

  1. Latinpilula“a pill”
  2. Englishpilulous

From Latin pilula (“a pill”) + -ous.

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APA

pilulous. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 3, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/pilulous

MLA

“pilulous.” WatkinsX Dictionary, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/pilulous. Accessed November 3, 2026.

Chicago

WatkinsX Dictionary, s.v. “pilulous,” accessed November 3, 2026, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/pilulous.

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