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caloric

/kəˈlɒɹɪk/
/ˈkæləɹɪk/

Rhymes with -ɒɹɪk

Where it comes from

From calorie + -ic. From French calorique, coined by French chemist Antoine Lavoisier, from Latin calor (“heat”).

adjective more caloric · most caloric

Relating to calories. caloric intake
Containing calories. Milk is a caloric beverage.
Synonym of calorific (“high in calories and thus likely fattening”). a dry, caloric food
Similar: calorific
Synonym of calorific (“relating to or producing heat or other energy”).
Similar: calorific

Similar: calorific · Opposite: noncaloric

noun

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

Thesaurus

Closest in meaning: thermal, thermic, calorific, calorie, heat, intake, energy, heated, calories, thermogenic, hot, warm, warming, thermodynamic, high-calorie, nutritive

adjective

Similar: calorific · Opposite: noncaloric

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@misc{caloric_2026,
  title = {caloric},
  howpublished = {Wiktionary, via Micwyn},
  year = {2026},
  url = {https://micwyn.com/word/caloric},
  urldate = {2026-11-06}
}