pentobarbital

Questions about pentobarbital

What does pentobarbital mean?

pentobarbital means "a barbiturate (trade name Nembutal) used as a sedative and hypnotic and antispasmodic".

How many syllables are in pentobarbital?

pentobarbital has 5 syllables and divides as pen-to-bar-bi-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 pentobarbital?

Close synonyms include pentobarbital sodium, Nembutal, yellow jacket. 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 pentobarbital a common word?

pentobarbital 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.