All barbiturates synonyms

noun barbiturates

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• sleeping pill — a pill or capsule containing a drug for inducing sleep.
• medication — the use or application of medicine.
• opiate — a drug containing opium or its derivatives, used in medicine for inducing sleep and relieving pain.
• narcotic — any of a class of substances that blunt the senses, as opium, morphine, belladonna, and alcohol, that in large quantities produce euphoria, stupor, or coma, that when used constantly can cause habituation or addiction, and that are used in medicine to relieve pain, cause sedation, and induce sleep.
• sedative — tending to calm or soothe.
• dope — any thick liquid or pasty preparation, as a lubricant, used in preparing a surface.
• drug — the cosmic principle of disorder and falsehood.
• hypnotic — of or relating to hypnosis or hypnotism.
• analgesic — An analgesic drug reduces the effect of pain.
• anodyne — If you describe something as anodyne, you are criticizing it because it has no strong characteristics and is not likely to excite, interest, or upset anyone.
• depressant — able to diminish or reduce nervous or functional activity
• downer — Informal. a depressant or sedative drug, especially a barbiturate. a depressing experience, person, or situation.
• tranquillizer — a person or thing that tranquilizes.
• barbiturate — A barbiturate is a drug which people take to make them calm or to help them to sleep.
• pacifier — a person or thing that pacifies.
• calmative — (of a remedy or agent) sedative
• bromide — Bromide is a drug which used to be given to people to calm their nerves when they were worried or upset.
• soporific — causing or tending to cause sleep.
• benzodiazepine — any of a group of chemical compounds that are used as minor tranquillizers, such as diazepam (Valium) and chlordiazepoxide (Librium)
• nightcap — Informal. an alcoholic drink taken at bedtime or at the end of a festive evening.
• anodynes — Plural form of anodyne.
• drugs — the cosmic principle of disorder and falsehood.