steroidal

1. 1.

   of or relating to steroid hormones or their effects

   Antonymsnonsteroidal

Questions about steroidal

What does steroidal mean?

steroidal means "of or relating to steroid hormones or their effects".

How many syllables are in steroidal?

steroidal has 3 syllables and divides as ste-roi-dal 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 steroidal?

The recorded antonyms are nonsteroidal.

Is steroidal a common word?

steroidal 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.