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creophagist

creophagist

9.9
A person or animal that eats meat
  • noun
  • /ˈkriːəˌfədʒɪst/
translation icon : carnívoro
  • As a dedicated creophagist, he enjoyed trying different cuts of meat from various animals.

Examples

  • The restaurant catered to creophagists, offering a wide range of gourmet meat dishes.

  • Many creophagists prefer steak cooked to perfection, often ordering it medium-rare.

  • Coming out of the produce locker means facing the fire of creophagist constituents.

    Academic text (2000)

  • If every creophagist was obliged to kill the calf that ends up as veal, the population of Pythagoreans would multiply by pi.

    Academic text (2000)

Synonyms

carnivore
vscreophagist
23 3.4

An animal that eats mainly meat

also covers people who eat meat as well as animals

Antonyms

vegetarian
116 1.9

A person who does not eat meat or fish and mainly eats plants

herbivore
  • Informal
1 3.4

A person who eats mostly plants and avoids meat

How Carnivorous

creophagist
9.9
omnivore
  • Specialized
9 3.9
herbivore
  • Specialized
9 3.7

Surface Forms

creophagist singular
creophagists plural

Morphology

creophagist = creo + phag + ist

Although analyzable into combining forms meaning 'flesh' + 'eat' + agent, these Greek-derived elements are not productive or familiar to average B1 learners, so the meaning is not reliably derivable from its parts.

Etymology

Creophagist comes from the Greek parts kreas 'meat' and phagein 'to eat'. So a creophagist is literally a 'meat-eater', like a carnivore, meaning an animal or person who eats meat.