Synonyms for diet
ˈdaɪ ɪtdi·et

English Synonyms and AntonymsRate these synonyms:2.5 / 2 votes

1. diet

   Food is, in the popular sense, whatever one eats in contradistinction to what one drinks. Thus, we speak of food and drink, of wholesome, unwholesome, or indigestible food; but in a more scientific sense whatever, when taken into the digestive organs, serves to build up structure or supply waste may be termed food; the word is extended to plants to signify whatever taken in any way into the organism serves similar purposes; thus, we speak of liquid food, plant food, etc.; in this wider sense food is closely synonymous with nutriment, nourishment, and sustenance. Diet refers to the quantity and quality of food habitually taken, with reference to preservation of health. Victuals is a plain, homely word for whatever may be eaten; we speak of choice viands, cold victuals. Nourishment and sustenance apply to whatever can be introduced into the system as a means of sustaining life; we say of a convalescent, he is taking nourishment. Nutriment and nutrition have more of scientific reference to the vitalizing principles of various foods; thus, wheat is said to contain a great amount of nutriment. Regimen considers food as taken by strict rule, but applies more widely to the whole ordering of life. Fare is a general word for all table supplies, good or bad; as, sumptuous fare; wretched fare. Feed, fodder, and provender are used only of the food of the lower animals, feed denoting anything consumed, but more commonly grain, fodder denoting hay, cornstalks, or the like, sometimes called "long feed;" provender is dry feed, whether grain or hay, straw, etc. Forage denotes any kind of food suitable for horses and cattle, primarily as obtained by a military force in scouring the country, especially an enemy's country.

   Synonyms:
   aliment, fare, feed, fodder, food, forage, nourishment, nutriment, nutrition, pabulum, provender, regimen, sustenance, viands, victuals

Complete Dictionary of Synonyms and AntonymsRate these synonyms:2.0 / 2 votes

1. diet

   Synonyms:
   food, victuals, nourishment, viands, nutriment, sustenance, fare, cheer, regimen

   Antonyms:
   starvation, fasting, abstinence, gluttony, omnivorousness

Princeton's WordNetRate these synonyms:0.0 / 0 votes

1. dietnoun

   a prescribed selection of foods

   Synonyms:
   dieting

2. dietnoun

   a legislative assembly in certain countries (e.g., Japan)

   Synonyms:
   dieting

3. dietnoun

   the usual food and drink consumed by an organism (person or animal)

   Synonyms:
   dieting

4. diet, dietingverb

   the act of restricting your food intake (or your intake of particular foods)

   Synonyms:
   dieting

5. dietverb

   follow a regimen or a diet, as for health reasons

   "He has high blood pressure and must stick to a low-salt diet"

6. dietverb

   eat sparingly, for health reasons or to lose weight

Matched Categories

1. • Animal
   • Fare
   • Fast
   • Legislature

Dictionary of English SynonymesRate these synonyms:0.0 / 0 votes

1. dietnoun

   Synonyms:
   food, provision, victuals, aliment, nutriment, nourishment, subsistence, provision, fare, viands, regimen, cheer, rations, commons

2. dietnoun

   Synonyms:
   assembly, convention, council, convocation, congress

3. dietverb

   Synonyms:
   eat sparingly, eat by rule

PPDB, the paraphrase databaseRate these paraphrases:1.0 / 1 vote

1. List of paraphrases for "diet":

   food, dietary, eating, nutrition, regime, feeding, 'alimentation, catering, sejm, restaurants, feed, dietetics, kost, ration

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1. Greg Lyons:

   Younger people just don't like the word' diet.

2. Luke Laffin:

   The basics are still very important, and include not smoking, maintaining a healthy weight, a diet of moderation, like fruits and vegetables, and regular exercise. I also would encourage you to seek the opinion of your regular physician or a cardiologist about more aggressive modification and treatment of risk factors, such as elevated LDL cholesterol and hypertension, ask his or her opinion about targeting even lower LDL cholesterol levels than they normally would in a person with your similar traditional risk factor profile, but without elevated Lp(a).

3. Francis Collins:

   Inducing behavior change for diet and exercise and is extremely difficult, and these subjects were not offered any support, even if they thought they should do something about it there was no assistance.

4. Allyson Jackson:

   It benefits us in the long run to be worried about these species, even if we don’t see the direct connection in our diet.

5. Laura Cobb:

   Normal weight people whose spouses went from being normal weight to obese were more likely to become obese, this suggests that changes in one spouse are likely to also be reflected in the other spouse, likely because of similar changes in diet, physical activity or other behaviors that impact obesity.