How do you pronounce caloric?

The recorded pronunciation is /kəˈlɒɹɪk/.

caloric

/kəˈlɒɹɪk/

Word Rarity Rare

Frequency: 2.98 in modern English

Syllables: caloric
IPA: /kəˈlɒɹɪk/

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Meaning

adj

Relating to calories.

adj

Containing calories.

adj

Synonym of calorific (“high in calories and thus likely fattening”).

adj

Synonym of calorific (“relating to or producing heat or other energy”).

noun

The hypothetical medium of heat.

Uncountable

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."

Etymology

From calorie + -ic. From French calorique, coined by French chemist Antoine Lavoisier, from Latin calor (“heat”).

Origin

Source language: French

Word Breakdown

Root: calorique

Usage

Uncountable

Inflected Forms

more caloric (comparative) most caloric (superlative)

Derived Forms

acaloric barocaloric barocalorics calorically caloricist caloricity calorics elastocaloric elastocalorics electrocaloric electrocalorics equicaloric

Phrases

caloric deficit caloric density calorific value low-caloric

Frequently Paired Words

endothermic exothermic thermodynamic

Synonyms

calorific thermal thermic

Antonyms

noncaloric

Rhymes With

historic prehistoric euphoric meteoric warrick doric couric boric dysphoric orrick borek perchloric