cultural barbiturate
Word Rarity
Very rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 2.11 in modern English
25
Scrabble Score
19
Letters
6
Syllables
9
Unique Chars
Meaning
Example Sentences
- "Why should so much of television be a cultural barbiturate, a tranquilizer for the ills and anxieties of our age?"
- "Critics mockingly refer to television as a "cultural barbiturate" and joke about "mainlining the tube.""
- "For almost a quarter of a century, the medium has been used, in the words of Jack Gould of the New York Times, as a "cultural barbiturate" that "kills time efficiently and economically"."