appetitenoun
uk/ˈæp.ə.taɪt/us/ˈæp.ə.taɪt/appetite noun (FOOD)
C1 [ C or U ] the feeling that you want to eat food:
All that walking has given me an appetite.
I won't have any chocolate, thanks. It will spoil (= reduce) my appetite.
I haven't got much of an appetite (= I am not hungry).
The children all have healthy/good appetites (= they eat a lot).
Both viruses cause fever and loss of appetite.
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- She's got a hearty appetite.
- You'll spoil your appetite for dinner if you have a cake now.
- We worked up a real appetite climbing in the mountains.
- The appetite, says the proverb, grows with eating.
- Growing boys have ravenous appetites.
Thesaurus: synonyms and related words
Hungry & thirsty
- (I'm so hungry), I could eat a horse idiom
- be gasping idiom
- eat
- eat like a horse idiom
- empty
- famine
- gasp
- hungry
- make sb's mouth water idiom
- munchies
- on an empty stomach idiom
- smack
- smack your lips idiom
- starvation
- starved
- starving
- thirst
- thirsty
- unquenchable
- voracious
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appetite noun (NEED)
C2 [ C ] the feeling of wanting or needing something:
her appetite for adventure
his insatiable sexual appetite
I've read an excerpt of the book on the Web and it's whetted my appetite (= increased my interest in it).
Thesaurus: synonyms and related words
Feelings of desire
- caprice
- compulsion
- covetous
- craving
- cupidity
- dream
- drive
- get itchy feet idiom
- hunger
- impulse buy
- inclination
- longing
- lust
- need
- urge
- vaulting
- whim
- wish
- yearning
- yen
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