Word Pronunciation & Dictionary

red pill

Word Rarity Uncommon

Frequency: Zipf frequency 4.01 in modern English

Syllables: red pill
IPA

10

Scrabble Score

7

Letters

1

Syllables

6

Unique Chars

Meaning

noun

Something that, in the view of the speaker or writer, enables or compels a person to overcome illusion and perceive harsher reality.

Informal

noun

Something that causes someone to believe in gynocentrism in modern society.

Slang

noun

The subculture of men who share a belief in the gynocentrism of modern society; manosphere.

Slang

noun

Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see red, pill.

verb

To enable a person to overcome (what the speaker or writer believes to be) illusion and thus to perceive harsher reality.

Informal; Intransitive verb; Transitive verb

verb

To cause someone to believe in gynocentrism in modern society.

Intransitive verb; Slang; Transitive verb

Example Sentences

"To take the red pill is to choose to take responsibility for our lives, both on the personal and larger social levels."
"Do you want to continue to live in the false world of dieting, where emotional pain is numbed, health risks are ignored, and false promises are made? Or do you want to take the red pill, as it were, and see the reality of a world in which food and eating don't dominate or take over your life?"
"We can offer ourselves the option of taking the red pill and, when the circumstances are right, we shall not be able to resist the lure of the naked truth; however hard it may be to stare it in the face."
"Until the media and economy are democratically structured and regulated, the best people can do is take the red pill -- that is, utilize the alternative media for information and thereby purge their neurological systems of large misleading segments of their past education and the mainstream popular media."
"As you choke down the red pill, we will begin to expound on that eternally important question that few people have bothered to ask, save once, likely around the tender age of four [...] the eternally important question, "What is money?""
"One of the unfortunate outcomes of a red pill awakening (i.e. to learn the true nature of men, women, our culture's abject gynocentrism) is red pill rage: anger at the raw deal dealt to men by unconstrained gynocentrism and a sexual market place that is far too risky for an awakened man to tolerate."

Etymology

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.

Usage

Inflected Forms

red pills (plural) redpill (alternative) red pills (present, singular) red pilling (participle, present) red pilled (participle, past) red pilled (past)

Phrases

red pilled red piller take the red pill black pill

Frequently Paired Words

black pill breadpill

Questions

What does red pill mean?: Something that, in the view of the speaker or writer, enables or compels a person to overcome illusion and perceive harsher reality.
Where does red pill come from?: 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.

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