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Viagra

proper nounattested in dialogue

  • //vaɪˈæɡɹə//

A brand name of the drug sildenafil citrate, used to treat erectile dysfunction.

proper noun

  1. 1

    A brand name of the drug sildenafil citrate, used to treat erectile dysfunction.

    Just like any other drug that elevates any aspect or level of performance, Viagra has a pretty harsh comedown, so to speak.

Etymology

Marketing name, perhaps from Sanskrit व्याघ्र (vyāghrá, “tiger”), or perhaps based on words such as vigour, virility, victory and Niagara.

The neighbouring pagesAlphabetical order follows the rules of the language, not byte values: an accent decides only between two otherwise identical words, and Spanish files Ñ as a letter of its own.

Lexical content from Wiktionary, under CC BY-SA 4.0 · Source entry · Data version 2026-08-23

Rank among the words of the OpenSubtitles 2018 corpus — film and television subtitles, so spoken rather than written usage (CC BY-SA 3.0).