Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun An instinctive physical desire, especially one for food or drink.
- noun A strong wish or urge.
- noun A collective demand.
from The Century Dictionary.
- To desire; long for; deeply want.
- To satisfy the appetite or desire of.
- noun An innate or acquired demand or propensity to satisfy a want; desire, especially strong desire; inclination; wish to attain some object or purpose: with for (formerly with of, to, or an infinitive) or absolutely.
- noun Specifically— A desire to supply a bodily want or craving; a desire for food or drink.
- noun Relish for food; the capacity of taking food with pleasure.
- noun Preference; taste; liking: as, to or according to one's appetite, that is, as one pleases.
- noun A thing desired.
- noun A tendency of an inanimate thing analogous to a desire.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun The desire for some personal gratification, either of the body or of the mind.
- noun Desire for, or relish of, food or drink; hunger.
- noun Any strong desire; an eagerness or longing.
- noun obsolete Tendency; appetency.
- noun obsolete The thing desired.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun Desire for, or relish of, food or drink; hunger.
- noun Any strong desire; an eagerness or longing.
- noun The desire for some personal gratification, either of the body or of the mind.
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun a feeling of craving something
Etymologies
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License
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Examples
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Attend to the demands of appetite, but use all your judgment in determining whether it is a natural, undepraved craving of the system which speaks, or an acquired and vicious taste, and give or withhold accordingly; and, above all, never eat when you have _no appetite_.
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I. i.2 (143,2) [that, surfeiting, The appetite may sicken, and so die] [W: app'tite, Love] It is true, we do not talk of the _death of appetite_, because we do not ordinarily speak in the figurative language of poetry; but that _appetite sickens by a surfeit_ is true, and therefore proper.
Notes to Shakespeare — Volume 01: Comedies Samuel Johnson 1746
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His incapability of constraining his appetite is a pretty good indicator of that; Ailes is an undisciplined pig in many respects.
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And supposing we should grant that this affection or disposition is the very thing which we call the appetite, it is probable that, by the operation of such kind of food as this, the nourishment may be made small, and so much of it as is convenient for Nature severed from the rest, so that the indigency proceeds not from the transmutation, but from the evacuation and purgation of the passages.
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And supposing we should grant that this affection or disposition is the very thing which we call the appetite, it is probable that, by the operation of such kind of food as this, the nourishment may be made small, and so much of it as is convenient for Nature severed from the rest, so that the indigency proceeds not from the transmutation, but from the evacuation and purgation of the passages.
Symposiacs 2004
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I was wondering if you can give some color as to your new term appetite with this institutional JV partners for acquisitions.
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As to the number of his motions (2 and somtimes 3 a day) I should not interfere with them so long as his appetite is not affected and he appears cheerfull.
Letter 165 2009
michaelgc commented on the word appetite
apetito
September 7, 2009