gormful appetite
- noun
- Archaic
:
apetito voraz
- The chef prepared extra portions, knowing the critics were known for their gormful appetites.
Examples
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After the hike, she felt a gormful appetite for a big meal.
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He has a gormful appetite for pizza.
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Despite his slim build, Mark always had a gormful appetite at family gatherings.
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Her gormful appetite was matched only by her love of good conversation.
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At the all-you-can-eat buffet, his gormful appetite was evident as he returned for seconds and thirds.
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Her gormful appetite for tacos always surprised her friends whenever they went out for dinner.
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After a long day of hiking, my gormful appetite for dinner made the food taste even better.
Synonyms
15
7.6
A habit of eating much more food or drink than your body needs
1
7.9
A very strong desire for more food, money or success
1
9.9
An unusually strong urge to eat much more than normal
1
7.8
A habit of eating too much in a greedy way
Very strong hunger that makes you want to eat a lot
A very strong desire to eat too much
A very strong hunger that makes you eat a lot
A very strong feeling that makes someone eat a lot of food
Wanting too much food and eating more than needed
A very greedy way of eating a lot of food
A very strong desire to eat a lot
Antonyms
How Hungry
- Archaic
39
7.5
299
2.1
- Informal
1
6.0
Surface Forms
Morphology
gormful + appetite
The headword 'gormful' is not an attested/common English word and its root 'gorm' is not transparent or recognizable to learners; although the suffix '-ful' signals 'full of', a B1 learner who knows 'appetite' and the suffix still could not deduce what 'gorm' means. Because the crucial lexical element is unknown and the overall sense cannot be predicted from the parts, the phrase is opaque.
Etymology
Gormful appetite may come from old words for greedy eaters like 'gourmand'; picture someone who is always full of hunger. The image of gormful (full of gorm) plus appetite helps you remember it means 'a very large or never satisfied appetite'.