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appetite
[ ap-i-tahyt ]
noun
- a desire for food or drink:
I have no appetite for lunch today.
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Antonyms:
- a desire to satisfy any bodily need or craving.
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Antonyms:
- a desire or liking for something; fondness; taste:
an appetite for power; an appetite for pleasure.
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appetite
/ əˈpɛtɪtɪv; ˈæpɪˌtaɪtɪv; ˈæpɪˌtaɪt /
noun
- a desire for food or drink
- a desire to satisfy a bodily craving, as for sexual pleasure
- usually foll by for a desire, liking, or willingness
a great appetite for work
Derived Forms
- appetitive, adjective
˜yÐÄvlog History and Origins
˜yÐÄvlog History and Origins
Origin of appetite1
Idioms and Phrases
see whet one's appetiteExample Sentences
Here are a few tales to whet your appetite - or perhaps put you off your dinner.
While accepting the government has no "appetite for debt cancellation", she said reducing the repayment period and the rate of interest the council is paying the government over its debts could be reviewed.
The company’s appetite for new users brings Wynn-Williams to Myanmar, which Facebook sees as an untapped market of 60 million potential users.
"Every individual will have a different appetite for risk and will value their own private information differently," California Attorney General Rob Bonta told the BBC by phone Monday.
All of which prompts the question: if the world really has changed, how much appetite now or in the future might Labour have for a really far-reaching re-examination of how it approaches government?
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Definitions and idiom definitions from Dictionary.com Unabridged, based on the Random House Unabridged Dictionary, © Random House, Inc. 2023
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