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anabolic definition

anabolic


 
  Grep  of  noun  anabolic 
  anabolic  steroid 
 
  Overview  of  adj  anabolic 
 
  The  adj  anabolic  has  2  senses  (no  senses  from  tagged  texts) 
 
  1.  anabolic  --  (or  or  related  to  the  synthetic  phase  of  metabolism) 
  2.  anabolic  --  (characterized  by  or  promoting  constructive  metabolism;  "some  athletes  take  anabolic  steroids  to  increase  muscle  size  temporarily") 
 
  Antonyms  of  adj  anabolic 
 
  1  of  2  senses  of  anabolic 
 
  Sense  2 
  anabolic  (vs.  catabolic) 
 
  catabolic  (vs.  anabolic),  katabolic 
  =>  destructive-metabolic(postnominal),  energy-releasing(postnominal) 
 
  Similarity  of  adj  anabolic 
 
  2  senses  of  anabolic 
 
  Sense  1 
  anabolic 
  Pertains  to  noun  anabolism  (Sense  1) 
  =>anabolism,  constructive  metabolism 
  =>  organic  process,  biological  process 
 
  Sense  2 
  anabolic  (vs.  catabolic) 
  =>  constructive-metabolic(postnominal),  energy-storing(postnominal) 
 
  Attributes  of  adj  anabolic 
 
 
  Familiarity  of  adj  anabolic 
 
  anabolic  used  as  an  adjective  is  rare  (polysemy  count  =  2) 
 
  Grep  of  adj  anabolic 
  anabolic 
 
  Overview  of  adj  anabolic 
 
  The  adj  anabolic  has  2  senses  (no  senses  from  tagged  texts) 
 
  1.  anabolic  --  (or  or  related  to  the  synthetic  phase  of  metabolism) 
  2.  anabolic  --  (characterized  by  or  promoting  constructive  metabolism;  "some  athletes  take  anabolic  steroids  to  increase  muscle  size  temporarily") 



anabolic definition