cholinergic

1. 1.

   releasing or activated by acetylcholine or a related compound

   Antonymsanticholinergic

Questions about cholinergic

What does cholinergic mean?

cholinergic means "releasing or activated by acetylcholine or a related compound".

How many syllables are in cholinergic?

cholinergic has 4 syllables and divides as cho-li-ner-gic under the regular spelling rules. It is not in the CMU Pronouncing Dictionary, so that comes from how the word is written rather than from a recorded pronunciation, and no stress or phonetic transcription is claimed for it.

What is the opposite of cholinergic?

The recorded antonyms are anticholinergic.

Is cholinergic a common word?

cholinergic 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.