dietary
/ˈdaɪəˌtɛɹi/
Word Rarity
Rare
Frequency: 3.70 in modern English
11
Scrabble Score
7
Letters
4
Syllables
7
Unique Chars
Meaning
noun
A regulated diet that excludes or constrains certain types of food, especially for health reasons; also, a book or similar setting out such regulations.
noun
A prescribed meal plan setting out how the inhabitants of an institution (such as a prison, hospital etc.) should be fed, and on what foods.
adj
Pertaining to a prescribed diet; (generally), relating to what a person or animal eats.
adj
Comprising a food source.
Example Sentences
- "[H]er lassitude was such that she hardly cared to feed herself; yet she managed to consume five or six times a normal dietary."
- "In general, beets, carrots, and turnips are all of aphrodisiac value in erotic dietary."
- "“Do I understand that he asked for more, after he had eaten the supper allotted by the dietary?” “He did, sir,” replied Bumble."
- "I cannot speak with any confidence of the pre-war dietary of asylum patients, which no doubt differs widely in different asylums."
- "If you have any dietary requirements, please inform the kitchen staff."
- "For example, the antitumour depsipeptide kahalalide F was isolated from the opisthobranch mollusc Elysia rufescens, and is used by both the mollusc and its dietary alga Bryopsis spp."
Etymology
Origin
- Source language: Latin
Word Breakdown
- Root: diētārium, diaeta
Regional Pronunciation
- American English: /ˈdaɪəˌtɛɹi/
- British English: /ˈdaɪət(ə)ɹi/