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diet - 19 thesaurus results
| Main Entry: | diet |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | abstain from food |
| Synonyms: | fall off, fast, go without, reduce, slim, count calories, eat sparingly, lose weight, skinny down, slim down, starve, tighten belt, watch weight |
| Antonyms: | gorge, indulge |
| Main Entry: | diet |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | abstinence from food |
| Synonyms: | fast, regime, regimen, restriction, starvation, dietary, nutritional therapy, weight-reduction plan |
| Antonyms: | indulgence |
| Main Entry: | diet |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | daily intake of food |
| Synonyms: | bite, comestibles, commons, fare, menu, nourishment, nutriment, nutrition, provisions, snack, subsistence, sustenance, viands, victuals, aliment, daily bread, edibles, goodies, grubbery, rations |
| Main Entry: | convocation |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | assembly |
| Synonyms: | assemblage, conclave, concourse, conference, congregation, congress, convention, council, diet, get-together, meet, meeting, powwow*, synod, turnout, confab |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | council |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | people assembled for purpose |
| Synonyms: | assembly, board, body, brain trust*, cabinet, chamber, clan, committee, conclave, conference, congregation, congress, convention, convocation, diet, gang, gathering, huddle*, kitchen cabinet*, meet, ministry, mob, outfit, panel, parliament, powwow*, ring, synod, confab, directorate, governing body, groupthink, official family, senate |
| Notes: | counsel is 'advice, guidance' and a counsel is a lawyer; a council is a deliberative body of people assembled for some purpose and members are councillors (especially in Britain) |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | fast |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | abstention from eating |
| Synonyms: | abstinence, diet, xerophagy, fasting |
| Antonyms: | eating, feast, stuffing, gluttony, gorging |
| Main Entry: | fast |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | go without food |
| Synonyms: | abstain, diet, forbear, refrain, deny oneself, famish, go hungry, not eat, starve |
| Antonyms: | eat, glut, gorge, stuff |
| Main Entry: | food |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | edible material |
| Synonyms: | bite*, board, bread, cheer, chow*, comestible, cooking, cuisine, diet, drink, eatable, eats*, entrée, fare, fast food, feed, fodder*, grit*, groceries*, grub*, handout*, keep, larder, meal, meat, menu, mess*, nourishment, nutriment, nutrition, pabulum, provision, ration, refreshment, slop*, snack, store, subsistence, support, sustenance, table, tuck, vittles*, aliment, cookery, foodstuff, goodies, home cooking, moveable feast, take out, viand, victual |
| Antonyms: | beverage, drink |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | legislature |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | governmental body, most often elected, that makes laws |
| Synonyms: | assembly, body, chamber, congress, council, diet, house, parliament, house of representatives, lawmakers, plenum, senate, voice of the people |
| Main Entry: | nourishment |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | food |
| Synonyms: | diet, feed, maintenance, nutriment, nutrition, pabulum, provender, support, sustenance, viands, victuals, vittles*, aliment, foodstuff, home cooking, pap |
| Antonyms: | deprivation, starvation |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | nurture |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | development, nourishment |
| Synonyms: | breeding, care, diet, discipline, education, feed, food, instruction, nutriment, provender, provisions, subsistence, sustenance, training, upbringing, viands, victuals, edibles, rearing |
| Antonyms: | deprivation, ignorance, neglect, starvation |
| Main Entry: | nutrition |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | food |
| Synonyms: | diet, menu, nourishment, nutriment, subsistence, sustenance, victuals, dietetics |
| Antonyms: | deprivation, starvation |
| Main Entry: | slim |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | lose weight |
| Synonyms: | diet, reduce, slenderize |
| Antonyms: | gain |
| Main Entry: | national assembly |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | federal assembly |
| Synonyms: | assembly, congress, diet, parliament, chamber of deputies, general assembly, house of assembly, legislative assembly, soviet |
| Main Entry: | bread |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | daily food |
| Synonyms: | comestibles, diet, fare, feed, grub*, nourishment, nurture, nutriment, provender, provisions, staff of life*, subsistence, sustenance, viands, victuals, aliment, bed and board, necessities, shingle |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | reduce |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | make less; decrease |
| Synonyms: | abate, abridge, bankrupt, break, cheapen, chop, clip, contract, curtail, cut, cut back, cut down, debase, deflate, depreciate, depress, diet, dilute, diminish, discount, drain, dwindle, impair, impoverish, lessen, lower, moderate, pare, rebate, recede, ruin, shave, shorten, slash, slim, step down, taper, tone down, trim, truncate, turn down, weaken, bant, go on a diet, lose weight, mark down, nutshell, pauperize, roll back, scale down, slow down, take off weight, taper off, wind down |
| Antonyms: | expand, extend, grow, increase, raise, upgrade |
| Main Entry: | treatment |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | medical care |
| Synonyms: | analysis, cure, diet, healing, medicine, operation, prescription, regimen, remedy, surgery, therapy, doctoring, hospitalization, medication, therapeutics |
| Antonyms: | harm, hurt, injury |
| Main Entry: | fare |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | food served at meals |
| Synonyms: | commons, diet, eats*, menu, provision, slop*, sustenance, swill*, table, victuals, eatables, edibles, meals, rations |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | table |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | meal |
| Synonyms: | bill of fare, board, cuisine, diet, fare, food, menu, spread, victuals, meat and drink |
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