Meaning

Relating to calories..

Definitions by Sense

1. Relating to calories.
2. Containing calories.
3. Synonym of calorific (“high in calories and thus likely fattening”).
4. Synonym of calorific (“relating to or producing heat or other energy”).
5. (historical) The hypothetical medium of heat.

Example Sentences

caloric intake

This strategy, known as caloric restriction, has been shown to increase the life span of various organisms and reduce their rate of cancer and other age-related ailments.

Milk is a caloric beverage.

a dry, caloric food

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

Caloric expands all bodies.

I offered apologies to her beautyship, but she grew furious; and the fiery spots on her face became red-hot with the caloric of anger […]

Word Forms

• more caloric
• most caloric

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Use caloric when its meaning, tone and grammar fit the full sentence. A synonym is not always a direct replacement.

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