-pilled
Word Rarity
Very rare
Frequency: 1.83 in modern English
9
Scrabble Score
6
Letters
2
Syllables
5
Unique Chars
Meaning
suffix
Forming adjectives denoting dedication to or a heightened awareness of something.
Example Sentences
- "bread + -pilled → breadpilled (referring to The Conquest of Bread and anarcho-communism)"
- "No longer simply an allegory for the trans experience in the Matrix, or right wing radicalisation on shady corners of the internet, the 'pilled' suffix has moved beyond internet-speak and has become a part of our everyday vernacular. Have you discovered the benefits of fish oil? You're fish oil-pilled. Are you fangirling over Rihanna? You're Riri-pilled. Are you obsessed with the salacious dynamic between Euphoria's Maddy and Cassie? You're bitchpilled."
- "Like a lot of the online-pilled, my brain has been rotted by memes, which have become cornerstones of the way I talk to my friends who suffer from the same affliction."
- "By merely looking at a pie, I can tell you whether the cornicione is too puffy or just right, if the crust could use a bit more leoparding, and whether the dough should have spent another day in the fridge. I am now, in a word, pizza-pilled."
- "The social media app, in which users are encouraged to log, rate, and review every movie they’re watching and have ever watched, has in recent years become the social platform du jour. Martin Scorsese is Letterboxd-pilled."
- "And while [Mark] Zuckerberg likes LeCun's world model research, the crowd who were hired for the company's new superintelligence push are “completely LLM-pilled”."
Etymology
Influenced by redpilled, blackpilled, etc. whose stems refer to the colour of the notional pill rather than their actual effects. Popularized from a scene in the 1999 film The Matrix.
Inflected Forms
more -pilled (comparative)
most -pilled (superlative)