What does catabolic mean?

catabolic means "relating to or characterized by catabolism". That is the primary sense; the word has 2 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in catabolic?

catabolic has 4 syllables: ca-ta-bo-lic. The stress falls on "bo".

What is another word for catabolic?

Close synonyms include katabolic, katabolic. 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.

What is the opposite of catabolic?

The recorded antonyms are anabolic.

Is catabolic a common word?

catabolic 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.

catabolic — meaning, pronunciation and 2 definitions

adjective

2 sensesA word that describes or qualifies a noun.

1.
relating to or characterized by catabolism
Synonymskatabolic
2.
characterized by destructive metabolism
Synonymskatabolic
Antonymsanabolic
Similardestructive-metabolic

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