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Pronunciation varies by accent · noun
A person who subsists on still-edible food that has been or was going to be discarded..
An estimated $75 billion worth of food is thrown out yearly in America, and it doesn’t take a great leap of logic to connect the desire to live sustainably with the almost limitless supply of free food that overflows the nation’s dumpsters. Thus the opportunivore can forage either overtly or covertly, by asking up front or diving out back.
Their secret? Like us, they [coyotes] survive by adapting: they’re opportunivores, feeding on everything from insects to garbage to deer; […]
Those were heady times for a young, omnivorous reporter: I handled everything from stakeouts to regional front-page features, writing on topics from nuclear power to heroin addiction. I call myself an "opportunivore" because I’m still drawn to a wide range of stories.
Use opportunivore when its meaning, tone and grammar fit the full sentence. A synonym is not always a direct replacement.
Opportunivore means A person who subsists on still-edible food that has been or was going to be discarded..
Common synonyms include freegan, flexitarian, omnivore, opportunist.
The opposite depends on the specific sense.
An estimated $75 billion worth of food is thrown out yearly in America, and it doesn’t take a great leap of logic to connect the desire to live sustainably with the almost limitless supply of free food that overflows the nation’s dumpsters. Thus the opportunivore can forage either overtly or covertly, by asking up front or diving out back.
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