low-cal

A form of low-calorie — Of a diet, involving eating a lower number of calories than would normally eaten, usually with the intention of losing weight.

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Meanings

adjective
  1. abbreviationAbbreviation of low-calorie.

    Yes. Though based on my thorough sampling of the trend, cold pork pies are tragically absent from girl dinner plates. Perhaps because, as noted by many TikTok users – and over the weekend both Today and the New York Times – many of these girl dinners are “suspiciously low cal”.

    2023 July 10, Alyx Gorman, Yvonne C Lam, “Explain it to me quickly: What is a TikTok ‘girl dinner’ and should I eat one tonight?”, in The Guardian, archived from the original on 01 Aug 2023, retrieved 10 Jul 2023

    Synonyms: diet, low-calorie

Synonyms & antonyms

More synonyms by meaning

adjectivehaving relatively few calories

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lightlitecalorie-freenonfatfat-freefatless
Also see
fat-freefatlesslightlitelow-calorienonfat

Synonym sets from Open English WordNet, CC BY 4.0.

Cite this entry
APA

low-cal. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 2, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/low-cal

MLA

“low-cal.” WatkinsX Dictionary, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/low-cal. Accessed November 2, 2026.

Chicago

WatkinsX Dictionary, s.v. “low-cal,” accessed November 2, 2026, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/low-cal.

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