placebo C2 Topic:Health & Medicine US /pləˈsi.boʊ/ UK /pləˈsiː.bəʊ/ See IPA manual Freq #27412 Meanings 1 noun A dummy medicine containing no active ingredients; an inert treatment. The acid test, I thought, was whether homeopathic remedies behave differently from placebos when submitted to clinical trials. 2 noun The vespers sung in the office for the dead. There the placebo, the office for the dead, was sung, and a vigil kept throughout the night. Thesaurus Word family Derived forms antiplacebononplaceboplacebicplacebo-controlledplacebogenicplacebolikeplacebologyplacebome Related forms drugnocebo Common collocations placebo effect Noun + noun Etymology Inherited from Middle English placebo, borrowed from Latin placēbō (“I will please”), the first-person singular future active indicative of placeō (“to please”). Topics Health & Medicine External links Cambridge Dictionary Wiktionary Google Images # placebo **Type:** Word **Level:** C2 **Part of speech:** noun **IPA (US):** /pləˈsi.boʊ/ **IPA (UK):** /pləˈsiː.bəʊ/ **Frequency rank:** 27412 ## Meanings 1. A dummy medicine containing no active ingredients; an inert treatment. 2. The vespers sung in the office for the dead. ## Examples - The acid test, I thought, was whether homeopathic remedies behave differently from placebos when submitted to clinical trials. - There the placebo, the office for the dead, was sung, and a vigil kept throughout the night. ## Derived Forms - antiplacebo - nonplacebo - placebic - placebo-controlled - placebogenic - placebolike - placebology - placebome ## Related Forms - drug - nocebo ## Etymology Inherited from Middle English placebo, borrowed from Latin placēbō (“I will please”), the first-person singular future active indicative of placeō (“to please”). ## Topics - Health & Medicine markdown