appetite meaning
EN[ˈæp.ə.taɪt]US
WAppetite
- Appetite is the desire to eat food, sometimes due to hunger. Appealing foods can stimulate appetite even when hunger is absent. Appetite exists in all higher life-forms, and serves to regulate adequate energy intake to maintain metabolic needs.
- NounPLappetitesSUF-ite
- Desire for, or relish of, food or drink; hunger.
- The most rapid and most seductive transition in all human nature is that which attends the palliation of a ravenous appetite. There is something humiliating about it.
- Any strong desire; an eagerness or longing.
- The desire for some personal gratification, either of the body or of the mind.
- A taste, preference.
- Desire for, or relish of, food or drink; hunger.
- More Examples
- Used in the Middle of Sentence
- Complains of a bad taste in his mouth ; there is some sore throat and difficulty of deglutition ; appetite very bad ; not very thirsty [ …] .
- [ …] in the same way that appetite has ensured the intake of food, sexual compulsion has ensured the placement of sperm. Under teleogenesis this would no longer be the case.
- I shall have worked up an appetite with all this heavy work.
- Used in the Ending of Sentence
- A joint of lamb sufficed even his enormous appetite.
- Used in the Middle of Sentence
Definition of appetite in English Dictionary
- Part-of-Speech Hierarchy
- Nouns
- Countable nouns
- Countable nouns
- Nouns
- en appetited
- en appetites
- en appetiteless
Source: Wiktionary