appetite

Definition

  • noun: a physical desire for food
  • noun: any of the instinctive desires necessary to keep up organic life
  • usually + 'for'
  • synonyms: appetency, desire, longing

Examples

  • She has an 'appetite for' adventure. [=she likes adventure; she likes to do adventurous things]

  • That movie made me 'lose my appetite'. [=I no longer wanted to eat after seeing that movie]

  • Delicious smells from the kitchen 'whetted our appetites'. [=made us hungry]

Movie clips

Movie quotes

  • (..) But now I am cabined, cribbed, confined, bound in to saucy doubts and fears. My royal Lord, you do not give the cheer. Thanks for that. Sweet remembrancer! Now, good digestion wait on appetite and health on both. Here had we now our country's honour roofed, were the graced person (..)
    2015 Macbeth