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Antonyms for food
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  1. foodnoun

    Anything intended to supply energy or nourishment of an entity or idea.

    That is food for thought.

    Synonyms:
    brainfood

  2. foodnoun

    A foodstuff.

    This shop stocks many hundreds of different foods.

    Synonyms:
    foodstuff

  3. foodnoun

    Synonyms:
    sustenance, feed, nourishment, nosh, victuals, foodstuff, chow, fodder, eats, comestible

English Synonyms and Antonyms4.0 / 2 votes

  1. food

    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, diet, fare, feed, fodder, forage, nourishment, nutriment, nutrition, pabulum, provender, regimen, sustenance, viands, victuals

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Princeton's WordNet0.0 / 0 votes

  1. food, nutrientnoun

    any substance that can be metabolized by an animal to give energy and build tissue

    Synonyms:
    solid food, food, intellectual nourishment, food for thought, nutrient

  2. food, solid foodnoun

    any solid substance (as opposed to liquid) that is used as a source of nourishment

    "food and drink"

    Synonyms:
    solid food, food, intellectual nourishment, food for thought, nutrient

  3. food, food for thought, intellectual nourishmentnoun

    anything that provides mental stimulus for thinking

    Synonyms:
    solid food, food, intellectual nourishment, food for thought, nutrient

How to use food in a sentence?

  1. Elisabetta Politi:

    I think that the US will want to do its own research to confirm the findings of the French study, i expect lobbyists in Washington will be busy trying to protect the interest of the food industry.

  2. Curtis Marean:

    This unique confluence of food from the land and sea cultivated the complex cultures revealed by the archaeology and provided safe harbor for humans during the glacial cycles that revealed that plain and made much of the rest of the world unwelcoming to human life.

  3. Oprah Winfrey:

    I was struck by the work these organizations are doing and while everyone's priority right now is to stay safer at home, I know there are many of us looking for ways to help, i believe that America's Food Fund will be a powerful way to make a difference for our neighbors in need.

  4. Katherine Zeratsky:

    It gives that same salty taste without being buried in the food.

  5. Vincent Hill:

    Nineteen percent wash food products with bleach, which could lead to their consumption of bleach that isn't washed off, which can damage the body because bleach is toxic. Eighteen percent used household cleaner on bare skin, which can damage the skin and cause rashes and burns.

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