adrenergic

1. 1.

   drug that has the effects of epinephrine

   Synonymsadrenergic drug

   Broadervasoconstrictor

   Narrowerphenylephrinephenylpropanolamine

1. 1.

   relating to epinephrine (its release or action)

   Synonymssympathomimetic

Other forms of adrenergic

plural

adrenergics·

Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.

Questions about adrenergic

What does adrenergic mean?

adrenergic means "drug that has the effects of epinephrine". That is the primary sense; the word has 2 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in adrenergic?

adrenergic has 4 syllables: a-dre-ner-gic. The stress falls on "ner". In IPA it is /ədɹɛˈnɛɹdʒɪk/.

What is another word for adrenergic?

Close synonyms include adrenergic drug, sympathomimetic. 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 adrenergic a common word?

adrenergic 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.