catabolic en · ADJ
Meanings
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Of, or relating to catabolism.
“This is the idea of catabolic collapse: that what we’re living through is a series of crises, sometimes followed by momentary resolution, but the long-term trend is downturn. It’s not going to be a sudden event that’s everything in a single day, which I think people like preppers are more accustomed to thinking.”
2025 June 26, Sam Wolfson, “On r/collapse, people are ‘kept abreast of the latest doom’. Its moderators say it’s not for everyone”, in The Guardian, →ISSN:Near-synonym: catabolytic (sometimes synonymous)
Antonyms
Deriveds
proteocatabolic · lipocatabolic · anticatabolic · noncatabolic · catabolically · procatabolic · hypercatabolic · osteocatabolic