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placebo | placebolike |

As a noun placebo

is placebo.

As an adjective placebolike is

having characteristics of a placebo.

placebo

English

(wikipedia placebo)

Noun

(en-noun)
  • (Roman Catholicism) The vespers sung in the office for the dead.
  • * 2011 , Thomas Penn, Winter King , Penguin 2012, p. 349:
    • There the placebo , the office for the dead, was sung, and a vigil kept throughout the night.
  • (medicine) A dummy medicine containing no active ingredients; an inert treatment.
  • * 2010 , Edzard Ernst, The Guardian , 22 Feb 2010:
    • The acid test, I thought, was whether homeopathic remedies behave differently from placebos when submitted to clinical trials.

    Antonyms

    * nocebo

    Derived terms

    * antiplacebo * nonplacebo * placebic * placebo effect

    placebolike

    English

    Adjective

    (en adjective)
  • Having characteristics of a placebo.