Appetite

Noun

 * 1) Desire for, or relish of, food or drink; hunger.
 * 2) Any strong desire; an eagerness or longing.
 * 3) The desire for some personal gratification, either of the body or of the mind.

Adjectives for Appetite
unmanageable; eager; inordinate; ravenous; cavernous; voracious; squeamish; keen; jaded; gluttonous; rude; depraved; abnormal; unappeased; phenomenal; prodigious; robust; natural; sharpened; vicious; eccentric; enormous; monstrous; gross; gigantic; sensitive; coarse; languid; sponge-like; pampered; devouring; herbivorous; rude; husky; boundless; leaden; capricious; perverted; obscene; unashamed; sleepy; sensual; catholic; brutish; perennial; inactive; lusty; insatiate; animal; satisfied; fleshy; overpowering; irrational; beastly; hearty; unreasonable; diseased; postponed; demoniac; surfeited.

Verbs for Appetite
acquire—appease-allay—; animate—; appeal to—; bury—; cloy—; comply with—;curb—; delight—; deprave—; depress—;digest with—; express—; gorge—; govern—; gratify—; humor—; impair—; indulge .—; obey—; pamper—; pervert—; preserve—; quench—; quicken—; raise—; reduce—; regulate—; relish—; revive—; sate—;satiate—; satisfy—; sharpen—; sicken—;staunch—; stimulate—; stir—; suffice—;suit—; yield to—; whet—; woo—; —anticipates; —diminishes; —drives; —dwindles;—gnaws ; —grows ; —increases ; —languish¬es ; —lessens; —returns; —sleeps.

Synonyms for Appetite
craving, longing, desire, appetency, passion, liking, disposition, relish, thirst, inclination, zest, proneness, proclivity, propensity, lust, impulse.

Antonyms for Appetite
aversion, distaste, dislike.

Derived terms

 * appetitive
 * appetizer


 * appetizing
 * appetizingly

Thesaurus
alacrity; an universal wolf; animation; animus; anxiety; anxiousness; appetence; appetency; appetition; appetitiveness; avidity; avidness; bent; bias; breathless impatience; canine appetite; cannibalism; carnivorism; carnivority; carnivorousness; cheerful readiness; chewing; choice; command; conation; conatus; consumption; coveting; craving; cropping; cupidity; decision; deglutition; demand; desire; determination; devouring; devourment; dieting; dining; discretion; disposition; drought; dryness; eagerness; eating; edacity; elan; emptiness; empty stomach; enthusiasm; epicureanism; epicurism; epulation; ethical hedonism; fancy; feasting; feeding; flair; fondness; forwardness; free choice; free will; gluttony; gobbling; gourmandise; grazing; greed; gust; gusto; hankering; hedonic calculus; hedonics; hedonism; herbivorism; herbivority; herbivorousness; hollow hunger; hunger; hungriness; impatience; inclination; ingestion; intention; itch; itching; keen desire; keenness; leaning; licking; life; liking; liveliness; longing; love; lust; luxuriousness; luxury; manducation; mania; mastication; messing; mind; munching; nibbling; nutrition; objective; omnivorism; omnivorousness; omophagy; pantophagy; passion; pasture; pasturing; pecking; penchant; pleasure; pleasure principle; pleasure-seeking; polydipsia; predilection; preference; proclivity; promptness; propensity; prurience; pruriency; psychological hedonism; quickness; readiness; regalement; relish; relishing; resolution; rumination; savoring; sensualism; sensuality; sensualness; sexual desire; soft spot; spirit; stomach; sweet tooth; sybaritism; tapeworm; taste; tasting; tendency; thirst; thirstiness; torment of Tantalus; unchastity; urge; urgency; vegetarianism; velleity; verve; vitality; vivacity; volition; voluptuousness; voracity; weakness; will; will power; wish; wolfing; yearning; zeal; zest; zestfulness

Etymology
From appetit:,  appétit:, from  appetitus:, from appetere:; ad: + petere:. See petition:, and compare with appetence:.

Pronunciation

 * , {{SAMPA|/"{p.@.taIt/}}


 * If God had given to eagles an appetite to swim. -- Jeremy Taylor.
 * To gratify the vulgar appetite for the marvelous. -- Thomas Babington Macaulay.

Translations

 * Arabic: شهية
 * Armenian:
 * Bulgarian:
 * Chinese:
 * Mandarin: ,
 * Dutch:


 * Estonian: söögiisu,, apetiit
 * Greek:
 * Hebrew: תאבון
 * Japanese:
 * Russian:
 * Spanish: apetito, deseo, ganas


 * Croatian:
 * Danish:
 * French:
 * German:


 * Icelandic: lyst, matarlyst, löngun
 * Portuguese: apetite
 * Slovak:

Verb
appetite


 * 1) Plural of appetito
 * 1) Plural of appetito
 * 1) Plural of appetito