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caloric

  • adjective
  • /kəˈlɒɹɪk/

Relating to calories.

Other meanings

  1. Containing calories.

    “Milk is a caloric beverage.”

Synonyms

  • thermal

Related words

  • acaloric
  • caloricist
  • caloricity
  • equicaloric
  • eucaloric
  • hypercaloric
  • hypocaloric
  • isocaloric
  • mechanocaloric
  • multicaloric
  • normocaloric
  • oxycaloric

Word history

From French "calorique".

Where this comes from

This definition is adapted from “caloric” on Wiktionary, by its contributors; related-word lists use Open English WordNet (CC BY 4.0, based on Princeton WordNet), published under CC BY-SA 4.0. This page is published under the same licence.