1. not having a medicinal effect or not medically prescribed; - Example: "he took mind-altering drugs for nonmedicinal reasons" [syn: unmedicinal, unmedicative, unmedical, nonmedicinal]
WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006):
nonmedicinal
adj 1: not having a medicinal effect or not medically
prescribed; "he took mind-altering drugs for nonmedicinal
reasons" [syn: unmedicinal, unmedicative,
unmedical, nonmedicinal]