anabolic steroid

noun

: any of a group of usually synthetic hormones that are derivatives of testosterone, are used medically especially to promote tissue growth, and are sometimes abused by athletes to increase the size and strength of their muscles and improve endurance

Examples of anabolic steroid in a Sentence

Recent Examples on the Web

The president's executive order reclassifies marijuana from the likes of heroin and ecstasy to drugs like ketamine and anabolic steroids. —Dennis Valera, CBS News, 19 Dec. 2025

Cannabis would instead be a Schedule III substance, like ketamine and some anabolic steroids. —Arkansas Online, 18 Dec. 2025

This includes ketamine, anabolic steroids, testosterone and products containing less than 90 milligrams of codeine per dosage unit, like Tylenol with codeine. —Meredith Kile, PEOPLE, 18 Dec. 2025

Ketamine, Tylenol with codeine, and some anabolic steroids are Schedule III drugs. —Addy Bink, The Hill, 16 Dec. 2025

Word History

First Known Use

1946, in the meaning defined above

Rhymes for anabolic steroid

• adenoid
• alkaloid
• amoeboid
• amyloid
• aneroid
• anthropoid
• arachnoid
• asteroid
• benzenoid
• carcinoid
• celluloid
• coronoid

Kids Definition

anabolic steroid

noun

: any of several man-made hormones that are used in medicine to help tissue grow, that are sometimes abused by athletes to increase muscle size and strength, and that may have harmful effects (as stunted growth in teenagers)

Medical Definition

anabolic steroid

noun

: any of a group of usually synthetic hormones that are derivatives of testosterone, are used medically especially to promote tissue growth, and are sometimes abused by athletes to increase the size and strength of their muscles and improve endurance