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| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | friendly, agreeable |
| Synonyms: | affable, amicable, attractive, benign, breezy, buddy-buddy, charming, cheerful, clubby, complaisant, cool*, copacetic, cordial, cozy, delightful, downright neighborly, easy, engaging, friendly, genial, good-humored, good-natured, gracious, home cooking, kind, kindly, lenient, lovable, mellow, mild, obliging, palsy-walsy, pleasant, pleasing, princely, pussycat, responsive, right, righteous, sociable, sweet-tempered, swell*, tight*, warm, warmhearted, winning |
| Notes: | amicable implies being well disposed; amiable is acting well disposed and amiable is commonly applied only to people - though sometimes it is used for occasions, while amicable is not applied to people at all but to human interactions and their outcomes; amiable first meant 'kind' or 'lovely, lovable' and amicable first applied to things and meant 'pleasant, benign' |
| Antonyms: | crabby, disagreeable, gloomy, hateful, irritable, mean, quarrelsome, rude, surly, testy, unfriendly |
| Main Entry: | food |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | edible material |
| Synonyms: | aliment, bite*, board, bread, cheer, chow, comestible, cookery, cooking, cuisine, diet, drink, eatable, eats, entrée, fare, fast food, feed, fodder*, foodstuff, goodies, grit, groceries, grub, handout, home cooking, keep, larder, meal, meat, menu, mess*, moveable feast, nourishment, nutriment, nutrition, pabulum, provision, ration, refreshment, slop, snack, store, subsistence, support, sustenance, table, take out, tuck, viand, victual, vittles |
| Antonyms: | beverage, drink |
| Main Entry: | nourishment |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | food |
| Synonyms: | aliment, diet, feed, foodstuff, home cooking, maintenance, nutriment, nutrition, pabulum, pap, provender, support, sustenance, viands, victuals, vittles |
| Antonyms: | deprivation, starvation |
| Main Entry: | pap |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | food |
| Synonyms: | aliment, bite*, board, bread, cheer, chow, comestible, cookery, cooking, cuisine, diet, drink, eatable, eats, edible, entrée, esculent, fare, fast food, feed, fodder*, foodstuff, goodies, grit, groceries, grub, handout, home cooking, keep, larder, meal, meat, menu, mess*, moveable feast, nourishment, nurture, nutriment, nutrition, pabulum, provender, provision, ration, refreshment, slop, snack, store, subsistence, support, sustenance, table, take out*, tuck, viand, victual, vittles |
| Main Entry: | palatable |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | delicious, agreeable |
| Synonyms: | A-OK, acceptable, aperitive, appetizing, attractive, cool, copacetic, delectable, delightful, divine, enjoyable, fair, flavorsome, good-tasting, heavenly, home-cooking, luscious, mellow, mouthwatering, peachy, pleasant, relishing, sapid, saporific, saporous, satisfactory, savory, scrumptious, sugar-coated, sweetened, tasteful, tasty, tempting, toothsome, toothy, yummy* |
| Antonyms: | bitter, disagreeable, distasteful, sour, unsavory, untasty |
| Main Entry: | nourishment |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
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adipsous, alible, alimentary, alimonious, amophagous, amphivorous, androphagous, anthophilous, anthropophagous, apivorous, arachnivorous, baccivorous, batrachivorous, bibulous, biophagous, cannibalistic, carnivorous, cepivorous, coenaculous, comestible, coprophagous, creophagous, dietetic, dipsetic, eatable, edacious, edible, entomophagous, equivorous, esculent, euryphagous, eutrophic, foisoned, frugivorous, fucivorous, galactophagous, geophagous, graminivorous, granivorous, hematophagous, herbivorous, hippophagous, hylophagous, ichthyophagous, ichthyophagus, insectivorous, lactivorous, lacto, limivorous, lithophagus, lotophagous, mellivorous, merdivorous, monophagous, myrmecophagous, necrophagous, nucivorous, nutritious, nutritive, oligophagous, omnivorous, oophagous, ophiophagous, oryzivorous, ossivorous, ovivorous, panivorous, phthirophagous, phyllophagous, phyticorous, phytivorous, phytophagous, piscivorous, pleophagous, poculent, poltophagic, polyphagous, porcipophagic, potable, potulent, predaceous, ranivorous, sanguinivorous, saprophagous, sarcophagic, scatophagous, scolecophagous, seminivorous, subruminative, trophic, vegan, vegetarian, xerophagous, xylophagous
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| Main Entry: | palatable |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
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Adjectives: |
alliaceous, ambrosial, appetizing, bigarade, brackish, briny, complex, congustable, dainty, delectable, delicate, delicious, dry, dulcet, eupeptic, exquisite, ferruginous, flavorful, fruity, full-bodied, gamy, geusioleptic, good, gustable, gustatory, gustful, honey, hot, jammy, juicy, lickerish, long-in-the-mouth, luscious, migniard, mouth-watering, nectareously, nice, oaky, orexigenic, palatable, peppery, pickled, rich, saccharine, saline, salt, salty, sapid, saporific, saporous, savory, scrumptious, sec, sipid, spicy, strong, succulent, sugary, sweet, sweet-and-sour, syrupy, tasteless, tasty, to one's taste, toothful, toothsome, treacly, uranic, well-tasted, zesty
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| Concept: | [Eating] Food. |
| Category: | 4. Motion with reference to direction |
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-nouns
eating; deglutition, gulp, epulation, mastication, manducation, rumination; hippophagy, ichthyophagy; gluttony., mouth, jaws, mandible, mazard, chops., drinking; potation, draught, libation; carousal (amusement); drunkenness., food, pabulum; aliment, nourishment, nutriment; sustenance, sustentation; nuture, subsistence, provender, corn, feed, fodder, provision, ration, keep, commons, board; commissariat (provision); prey, forage, pasture, pasturage; fare, cheer; diet, dietary; regimen; belly timber, staff of life; bread, bread and cheese., comestibles, eatables, victuals, edibles, ingesta; grub, grubstake, prog, meat; bread, bread stuffs; cerealia; cereals; viands, cates, delicacy, dainty, creature comforts, contents of the larder, fleshpots; festal board; ambrosia; good cheer, good living., beef, biscuit, bun; cornstarch [U.S.]; cookie, cooky [U.S.]; cracker, doughnut; fatling; hardtack, hoecake [U.S.], hominy [U.S.]; mutton, pilot bread; pork; roti, rusk, ship biscuit; veal; joint, piece de resistance, roast and boiled; remove, entree, entremet, hors d'oeuvre; releve, hash, rechauffe, stew, ragout, fricassee, mince; pottage, potage, broth, soup, consomme, puree, spoonmeat; pie, pasty, volauvent; pudding, omelet; pastry; sweets; kickshaws; condiment., alligator pear, apple, apple slump; artichoke; ashcake, griddlecake, pancake, flapjack; atole, avocado, banana, beche de mer, barbecue, beefsteak; beet root; blackberry, blancmange, bloater, bouilli, bouillon, breadfruit, chop suey [U.S.]; chowder, chupatty, clam, compote, damper, fish, frumenty, grapes, hasty pudding, ice cream, lettuce, mango, mangosteen, mince pie, oatmeal, oyster, pineapple, porridge, porterhouse steak, salmis, sauerkraut, sea slug, sturgeon ("Albany beef"), succotash [U.S.], supawn [U.S.], trepang, vanilla, waffle, walnut., table, cuisine, bill of fare, menu, table d'hote, ordinary, entree., meal, repast, feed, spread; mess; dish, plate, course; regale; regalement, refreshment, entertainment; refection, collation, picnic, feast, banquet, junket; breakfast; lunch, luncheon; brunch; dejeuner, bever, tiffin, dinner, supper, snack, whet, bait, dessert; potluck, table d'hote, dejeuner a la fourchette; hearty meal, square meal, substantial meal, full meal; blowout; light refreshment; bara, chotahazri; bara khana., mouthful, bolus, gobbet, morsel, sop, sippet., drink, beverage, liquor, broth, soup; potion, dram, draught, drench, swill; nip, sip, sup, gulp., wine, spirits, liqueur, beer, ale, malt liquor, Sir John Barleycorn, stingo, heavy wet; grog, toddy, flip, purl, punch, negus, cup, bishop, wassail; gin (intoxicating liquor); coffee, chocolate, cocoa, tea, the cup that cheers but not inebriates; bock beer, lager beer, Pilsener beer, schenck beer; Brazil tea, cider, claret, ice water, maté, mint julep [U.S.]., eating house.
-verbs
eat, feed, fare, devour, swallow, take; gulp, bolt, snap; fall to; despatch, dispatch; discuss; take down, get down, gulp down; lay in, tuck in; lick, pick, peck; gormandize; bite, champ, munch, cranch, craunch, crunch, chew, masticate, nibble, gnaw, mumble., live on; feed upon, batten upon, fatten upon, feast upon; browse, graze, crop, regale; carouse (make merry); eat heartily, do justice to, play a good knife and fork, banquet., break bread, break one's fast; breakfast, lunch, dine, take tea, sup., drink in, drink up, drink one's fill; quaff, sip, sup; suck, suck up; lap; swig; swill, tipple (be drunken); empty one's glass, drain the cup; toss off, toss one's glass; wash down, crack a bottle, wet one's whistle., purvey.
-adjectives
eatable, edible, esculent, comestible, alimentary; cereal, cibarious; dietetic; culinary; nutritive, nutritious; gastric; succulent; potable, potulent; bibulous., omnivorous, carnivorous, herbivorous, granivorous, graminivorous, phytivorous; ichthyivorous; omophagic, omophagous; pantophagous, phytophagous, xylophagous
-phrases
"across the walnuts and the wine" [Tennyson]; "blessed hour of our dinners!" [O. Meredith]; "now good digestion wait on appetite, and health on both!"
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