appetiteとは

意味・読み方・使い方

発音

• (Received 発音) IPA^(key): /ˈæpɪtaɪt/
• (General American) IPA^(key): /ˈæpəˌtaɪt/
• Homophone: apatite (same as the GA pronunciation)
• ハイフネーション: ap‧pe‧tite

名詞

appetite (countable かつ uncountable, 複数形 appetites)

1. Desire to eat food or consume drink.
   • 1904, Arthur Conan Doyle in The Adventure of Black Peter:

     And I return with an excellent appetite. There can be no question, my dear Watson, of the value of exercise before breakfast.

   • 1922, Ben Travers, chapter 5, in A Cuckoo in the Nest:

     The most rapid and most seductive transition in all human nature is that which attends the palliation of a ravenous appetite. There is something humiliating about it.

   • 1985, Susan Mullane, “Going for some gusto in the kitchen”, in National Fisherman‎^[1], page 78:

     Though the breweries were forced to shut down, the dry spell did little more than whet the public's appetite for beer: Records show that within the first 24 hours after Congress lifted the ban [Prohibition] in 1933, Americans guzzled 1 million barrels of the stuff.

2. Any strong desire; an eagerness or longing.
   • 1678, Antiquitates Christianæ: Or, the History of the Life and Death of the Holy Jesus: […], London: […] E. Flesher, and R. Norton, for R[ichard] Royston, […], OCLC 1179639832:

     If God had given to eagles an appetite to swim.

   • 1849–1861, Thomas Babington Macaulay, chapter 9, in The History of England from the Accession of James the Second, volume (please specify |volume=I to V), London: Longman, Brown, Green, and Longmans, OCLC 1069526323:

     To gratify the vulgar appetite for the marvellous.

3. The desire for some personal gratification, either of the body or of the mind.

   appetite for reading

   • 1594, Richard Hooker, Of the Lawes of Ecclesiastical Politie

     The object of appetite is whatsoever sensible good may be wished for; the object of will is that good which reason does lead us to seek.

同意語

• craving, longing, desire, appetency, passion

派生語