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appetite    音标拼音: ['æpət,ɑɪt]
n. 食欲,胃口;欲望,爱好

食欲,胃口;欲望,爱好

appetite
n 1: a feeling of craving something; "an appetite for life";
"the object of life is to satisfy as many appetencies as
possible"- Granville Hicks [synonym: {appetite}, {appetency},
{appetence}]

Appetite \Ap"pe*tite\, n. [OE. appetit, F. app['e]tit, fr. L.
appetitus, fr. appetere to strive after, long for; ad
petere to seek. See {Petition}, and cf. {Appetence}.]
1. The desire for some personal gratification, either of the
body or of the mind.
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The object of appetite it whatsoever sensible good
may be wished for; the object of will is that good
which reason does lead us to seek. --Hooker.
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2. Desire for, or relish of, food or drink; hunger.
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Men must have appetite before they will eat.
--Buckle.
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3. Any strong desire; an eagerness or longing.
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It God had given to eagles an appetite to swim.
--Jer. Taylor.
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To gratify the vulgar appetite for the marvelous.
--Macaulay.
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4. Tendency; appetency. [Obs.]
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In all bodies there as an appetite of union.
--Bacon.
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5. The thing desired. [Obs.]
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Power being the natural appetite of princes.
--Swift.
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Note: In old authors, appetite is followed by to or of, but
regularly it should be followed by for before the
object; as, an appetite for pleasure.
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Syn: Craving; longing; desire; appetency; passion.
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174 Moby Thesaurus words for "appetite":
Cyrenaic hedonism, Cyrenaicism, alacrity, an universal wolf,
animation, animus, anxiety, anxiousness, appetence, appetency,
appetition, appetitiveness, avidity, avidness, bent, bias,
breathless impatience, canine appetite, cannibalism, carnivorism,
carnivority, carnivorousness, cheerful readiness, chewing, choice,
command, conation, conatus, consumption, coveting, craving,
cropping, cupidity, decision, deglutition, demand, desire,
determination, devouring, devourment, dieting, dining, discretion,
disposition, drought, dryness, eagerness, eating, edacity, elan,
emptiness, empty stomach, enthusiasm, epicureanism, epicurism,
epulation, ethical hedonism, fancy, feasting, feeding, flair,
fondness, forwardness, free choice, free will, gluttony, gobbling,
gourmandise, grazing, greed, gust, gusto, hankering,
hedonic calculus, hedonics, hedonism, herbivorism, herbivority,
herbivorousness, hollow hunger, hunger, hungriness, impatience,
inclination, ingestion, intention, itch, itching, keen desire,
keenness, leaning, licking, life, liking, liveliness, longing,
love, lust, luxuriousness, luxury, manducation, mania, mastication,
messing, mind, munching, nibbling, nutrition, objective,
omnivorism, omnivorousness, omophagy, pantophagy, passion, pasture,
pasturing, pecking, penchant, pleasure, pleasure principle,
pleasure-seeking, polydipsia, predilection, preference, proclivity,
promptness, propensity, prurience, pruriency,
psychological hedonism, quickness, readiness, regalement, relish,
relishing, resolution, rumination, savoring, sensualism,
sensuality, sensualness, sexual desire, soft spot, spirit, stomach,
sweet tooth, sybaritism, tapeworm, taste, tasting, tendency,
thirst, thirstiness, torment of Tantalus, unchastity, urge,
urgency, vegetarianism, velleity, verve, vitality, vivacity,
volition, voluptuousness, voracity, weakness, will, will power,
wish, wolfing, yearning, zeal, zest, zestfulness

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