caloric

comparative more caloric · superlative most caloric

1. Relating to calories.

   caloric intake

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   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.

   2019 July 16, Anahad O’Connor, “Cutting 300 Calories a Day Shows Health Benefits”, in The New York Times

2. Containing calories.

   Milk is a caloric beverage.

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

   a dry, caloric food

   Synonyms: calorific

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

   Synonyms: calorific

1. historicaluncountableThe hypothetical medium of heat.

   Caloric expands all bodies.

   1799, William Henry, Elements of Experimental Chemistry

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

   1791, Erasmus Darwin, The Economy of Vegetation, J. Johnson, page 45

   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 […]

   1849, M. R. C. S, Confessions of a Hypochondriac, page 94