caloric

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

• Rhymes: -ɒɹɪk

caloric (comparative more caloric, superlative most caloric)

1. Relating to calories.

   caloric intake

2. Containing calories.

   Milk is a caloric beverage.

3. Synonym of calorific (“high in calories and thus likely fattening”).

   a dry, caloric food

4. Synonym of calorific (“relating to or producing heat or other energy”).

• For the senses "relating to calories" and "relating to or producing heat", caloric is the usual form in the US, and calorific is the usual form in the UK.

• calorific (UK)

• noncaloric

• calorically
• calorific value

caloric (uncountable)

1. (now historical) The hypothetical medium of heat.
   • Henry

     Caloric expands all bodies.

caloric (not comparable)

1. caloric

• caloria