amytal

Questions about amytal

What does amytal mean?

amytal means "the sodium salt of amobarbital that is used as a barbiturate; used as a sedative and a hypnotic".

How many syllables are in amytal?

amytal has 3 syllables and divides as a-my-tal under the regular spelling rules. It is not in the CMU Pronouncing Dictionary, so that comes from how the word is written rather than from a recorded pronunciation, and no stress or phonetic transcription is claimed for it.

What is another word for amytal?

Close synonyms include amobarbital sodium, blue, blue angel, blue devil. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is amytal a common word?

amytal is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.