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:
   diet, 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. Dana Dabelea:

   A diet characterized by higher energy intake( and) less healthy food consumed during pregnancy is associated with having a baby that has higher adiposity at birth, women who exercise more during pregnancy, especially in the third trimester, have babies that have a lower adiposity at birth.

2. Richard Isaacson:

   You can't just eat a magic blueberry or follow a certain diet and think that your likelihood of Alzheimer's is going to go away, people take different roads to Alzheimer's disease and dementia.

3. Candace Rondeaux:

   They have set a steady diet of pro-war, anti-West, anti-Ukrainian propaganda to the hard right elements of Russia for many years now. And they have, in many ways, popularized the Wagner group brand and the Russian way of war.

4. Julie Churchill:

   There is no known health benefit to this type of diet, and there may even be potential health risks.

5. Jacob Torres:

   We need to grow enough to supplement diet, just like here on Earth, we can't live on the same thing.