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/ˈbɑː.bɪt.əl/ · noun
The first commercially marketed barbiturate, used as a hypnotic drug until the mid-1950s..
A woman, who had taken morphine and barbital, was found apparently dead after a night's exposure in some lonely spot. There were no reflexes, no pulse, no respiration or heart-beat. Yet she was alive—existing without oxygen—an impossibility as we had always supposed.
Use barbital when its meaning, tone and grammar fit the full sentence. A synonym is not always a direct replacement.
Barbital means The first commercially marketed barbiturate, used as a hypnotic drug until the mid-1950s..
Common synonyms include barbitone, diethylbarbituric acid, diethylmalonyl urea, veronal.
The opposite depends on the specific sense.
A woman, who had taken morphine and barbital, was found apparently dead after a night's exposure in some lonely spot. There were no reflexes, no pulse, no respiration or heart-beat. Yet she was alive—existing without oxygen—an impossibility as we had always supposed.
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