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appetite Definition

ap·pe·tite (ap′ə tīt′)

noun

  1. a desire to satisfy some craving of the body; specif., a desire for food, or, sometimes, a desire for some specific food
  2. any strong desire or craving an appetite for knowledge

Etymology: OFr apetit < L appetitus, eager desire for < appetere, to strive after < ad-, to + petere, desire: see feather

appetite Related Forms
ap′·pe·ti′·tive (-tīt′iv) adjective
appetite Synonyms

appetite

n.

  1. A craving for food or drink

    hunger, thirst, craving, longing, urge, taste, dryness, dehydration, starvation, empty stomach, thirstiness, ravenousness, voracity, desire.

    Antonyms indifference*, satiety, surfeit.

  2. Desire

    longing, craving, hankering, taste; see desire 1, 3.

appetite Usage Examples

Converse of object

  • whet: All of which will be enough to whet the appetite of the first game's cult collective.
  • suppress: No drug so far has proved to be of lasting help with regard to suppressing appetite.
  • satiate: Cyberpunk Reloaded brings together a varied compilation of articles to satiate the appetite of the most avid fans.
  • stimulate: Acupuncture can also play a role and stimulate appetite.
  • sate: Suitable vessels will be provided by the host to sate the appetites of most Kindred.
  • satisfy: Catering Staff - responsible for producing meals to satisfy healthy appetites sharpened by all the exercise.

Preposition: for

  • wonder: There is an appetite for wonder, and isn't true science well qualified to feed it?

Adjective modifier

  • insatiable: An insatiable appetite for learning resulted in her securing a place at Leeds College of Music.
  • voracious: The Highlands were to become an enormous sheep pen arranged to satisfy the empire's equally voracious appetite for wool.
  • hearty: Oh how a morning at the baths gave ye a big hearty appetite for the bacon n eggs.
  • rapacious: Ladybirds are a most welcome visitor to the garden, with their rapacious appetite for aphids.
  • carnal: Poetry evokes the carnal appetite for the ugly and the beautiful.
  • fleshly: We applaud the sermon that grips the worldly mind and the fleshly appetite.

Modifies a noun

  • suppressant: The good news is that in a few years time we may have some appetite suppressants to make it easier.
  • stimulant: The Cherokee ate the somewhat bitter fruits as an appetite stimulant, as well as to improve circulation and relieve cramps.
  • suppression: Advanced cases often show weight loss and appetite suppression.
  • nausea: They can include: headache fever tiredness aching limbs loss of appetite nausea and vomiting abdominal pain These symptoms last for around a week.
  • disturbance: Biological feature of depression, such as sleep and appetite disturbance may also occur.

Noun used with modifier

  • investor: The IPO market has also been fairly active, especially in the exotic emerging market companies, taking advatage of investor appetite.
  • risk: To choose medical the risk appetite prove a sales.
appetite Quotes

L'appe¤  tit vient en mangeant. Appetite comes with eating.

—Rabelais, Fran c° ois

Let the Stoics say what they please, we do not eat for the good of living, but because the meat is savoryand the appetite is keen.

—Emerson, RalphWaldo

   'Tis not the meat; but 'tis the appetite Makes eating a delight.

—Suckling, SirJohn

To curle on the ice, does greatly please, Being a manly Scottish exercise; It clears the Brains, stirs up the Native Heat, And gives a gallant appetite for Meat.

—Penecuik, DrAlex

   A woman dictates before marriage in order that she may have an appetite for submission afterwards.

—Eliot, George pseudonym of  MaryAnn Evans

It is better dealing with men in appetite, than with those that are where they would be.

—Bacon, Francis,Viscount St Albans

All things are lawful there that may delight Nature or unrestraine'  d appetite.

—Carew,Thomas

What is commonly called love, namely the desire of satisfying a voracious appetite with a certain quantity of delicate white human flesh.

—Fielding, Henry

To be, the will to power must increase with each fulfilment, making the fulfilment onlya step to a further one.The vaster the power gained the vaster theappetite for more.

—Le Guin, Ursula ne¤  e Kroeber