appetite

/'æpitait/

Thân thiện

She has a healthy appetite and enjoys a colorful salad.

Definition

1. Noun:
   • A natural desire to satisfy a bodily need, especially for food: A physical feeling of wanting or needing to eat.
   • A strong desire or liking for something: An eagerness or craving for a particular activity or thing.

Examples

• Noun:
  • The walk gave me a healthy appetite for lunch.
  • She has a huge appetite for adventure and travel.
  • He lost his appetite during his illness.

Advanced Usage

• "Whet someone's appetite": To increase someone's interest in or desire for something.
  • The preview was designed to whet the audience's appetite for the new film series.
• "Appetite for destruction": A strong tendency or desire to cause damage or chaos (often used figuratively).
  • The reckless driver seemed to have an appetite for destruction.

Variants and Related Words

• Appetizer (n): A small dish of food or a drink taken before a meal to stimulate the appetite.
  • We shared a plate of calamari as an appetizer.
• Appetizing (adj): Appealing to or stimulating the appetite.
  • The appetizing smell of baking bread filled the kitchen.

Synonyms

• Hunger: A feeling of discomfort or weakness caused by lack of food, coupled with the desire to eat.
• Craving: A powerful desire for something.
• Desire: A strong feeling of wanting to have something or wishing for something to happen.

Related Phrases

• "Work up an appetite": To do something, especially physical activity, that makes you hungry.
  • Let's go for a hike to work up an appetite for the barbecue.

Related Idioms

• "Appetite comes with eating": (Proverb) Desire or enjoyment increases as you experience more of something.
  • I wasn't sure about learning the guitar, but appetite comes with eating—now I practice every day.

Học thuật

Noun

1. a feeling of craving something
   • an appetite for life
   • the object of life is to satisfy as many appetencies as possible- Granville Hicks

Từ đồng nghĩa

• appetency
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