Caloric

//kəˈlɒɹɪk// adj, noun

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Definitions

Noun
  1. 1
    The hypothetical medium of heat. historical, uncountable

    "The fluid matter of heat, or Calorique, in which all bodies are immersed, is as necessary to vegetable as to animal existence."

Adjective
  1. 1
    Relating to calories.

    "caloric intake"

  2. 2
    Containing calories.

    "Milk is a caloric beverage."

  3. 3
    Synonym of calorific (“high in calories and thus likely fattening”).

    "a dry, caloric food"

  4. 4
    Synonym of calorific (“relating to or producing heat or other energy”).
Adjective
  1. 1
    of or relating to calories in food wordnet
  2. 2
    relating to or associated with heat wordnet

Synonyms

All synonyms
calorificburningcalorificfeverheatingsuperheat

Example

More examples

"The only way to lose weight is to create a caloric deficit by burning more calories than you eat."

Etymology

From calorie + -ic. From French calorique, coined by French chemist Antoine Lavoisier, from Latin calor (“heat”).

Related phrases

caloric deficitcaloric densitycalorific valuelow-caloric

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