Definition of appetite

"appetite" in the noun sense

1. appetite, appetency, appetence

a feeling of craving something

"an appetite for life"

"the object of life is to satisfy as many appetencies as possible"- Granville Hicks

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Quotations for appetite

Excess of delight
Palls appetite. [ Proverb ]

Hunger is never delicate. [ Dr. John ]

Turtle makes all men equal. [ Beaconsfield ]

A dinner lubricates business. [ Lord Stowell ]

Reason should direct and appetite obey. [ Cicero ]

Who can cloy the hungry edge of appetite? [ William Shakespeare ]

All things require skill but an appetite. [ English Proverb, collected by George Herbert ]

Good cheer is no hindrance to a good life. [ Aristippus ]

Appetite comes with eating, says Angeston. [ Rabelais ]

Rudeness is a sauce to his good wit,
Which gives men stomach to digest his words,
With better appetite. [ William Shakespeare ]

Belief in a future life is the appetite of reason. [ Landor ]

A well-governed appetite is a great part of liberty. [ Seneca ]

Now, good digestion wait on appetite. And health on both! [ William Shakespeare ]

It is difficult to speak to the belly because it has no ears. [ Plutarch ]

Who rises from a feast with that keen appetite that he sits down? [ William Shakespeare ]

Choose rather to punish your appetites than to be punished by them. [ Tyrius Maximus ]

If you are surprised at the number of our maladies, count our cooks. [ Seneca ]

Hunger makes everything sweet except itself, for want is the teacher of habits. [ Antiphanes ]

And gazed around them to the left and right With the prophetic eye of appetite. [ Byron ]

Some women need much adorning, as some meat needs much seasoning to incite appetite. [ Rochebrune ]

The accumulation of wealth is followed by an increase of care, and by an appetite for more. [ Horace ]

The Creator, in obliging man to eat, invites him by appetite, and rewards him with pleasure. [ Brillat-Savarin ]

There is in the soul a taste for the good, just as there is in the body an appetite for enjoyment. [ Joubert ]

If music be the food of love, play on, give me excess of it; that, surfeiting, the appetite may sicken, and so die. [ William Shakespeare ]

Our minds are like our stomachs; they are whetted by the change of food, variety supplies both with fresh appetite. [ Quintilian ]

Read, read, sirrah, and refine your appetite; learn to live upon instruction; frost your mind and mortify your flesh. [ Congreve ]

Science confounds everything; it gives to the flowers an animal appetite, and takes away from even the plants their chastity. [ Joubert ]

Society is composed of two great classes: those who have more dinners than appetite, and those who have more appetite than dinners. [ Chamfort ]

A chine of honest bacon would please my appetite more than all the marrowpuddings, for I like them better plain, having a very vulgar stomach. [ Dryden ]

The devil tempts men through their ambition, their cupidity, or their appetite, until he comes to the profane swearer, whom he clutches without any reward. [ Horace Mann ]

The misfortune is that when man has found honey, he enters upon the feast with an appetite so voracious that he usually destroys his own delight by excess and satiety. [ Knox ]

Fortitude is not the appetite of formidable things, nor inconsult rashness, but virtue fighting for a truth, derived from knowledge of distinguishing good or bad causes. [ Nabb ]

Plutarch would rather we should applaud his judgment than commend his knowledge, and would rather leave us with an appetite to read more than glutted with that we have already read. [ Montaigne ]

Like the tiger, that seldom desists from pursuing man after having once preyed upon human flesh, the reader who has once gratified his appetite with calumny makes ever after the most agreeable feast upon murdered reputations! [ Goldsmith ]

appetite in Scrabble®

The word appetite is playable in Scrabble®, no blanks required. Because it is longer than 7 letters, you would have to play off an existing word or do it in several moves.

Scrabble® Letter Score: 12

Highest Scoring Scrabble® Plays In The Letters appetite:

APPETITE
(117)
APPETITE
(117)

Seven Letter Word Alert: (1 word)

pipette

 

All Scrabble® Plays For The Word appetite

APPETITE
(117)
APPETITE
(117)
APPETITE
(78)
APPETITE
(78)
APPETITE
(48)
APPETITE
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(16)
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(15)
APPETITE
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The 200 Highest Scoring Scrabble® Plays For Words Using The Letters In appetite

APPETITE
(117)
APPETITE
(117)
PIPETTE
(94 = 44 + 50)
PIPETTE
(92 = 42 + 50)
PIPETTE
(92 = 42 + 50)
PIPETTE
(86 = 36 + 50)
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(86 = 36 + 50)
PIPETTE
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PIPETTE
(86 = 36 + 50)
PIPETTE
(86 = 36 + 50)
PIPETTE
(86 = 36 + 50)
PIPETTE
(84 = 34 + 50)
PIPETTE
(84 = 34 + 50)
PIPETTE
(83 = 33 + 50)
PIPETTE
(78 = 28 + 50)
APPETITE
(78)
APPETITE
(78)
PIPETTE
(78 = 28 + 50)
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PIPETTE
(76 = 26 + 50)
PIPETTE
(76 = 26 + 50)
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PIPETTE
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PIPETTE
(72 = 22 + 50)
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(72 = 22 + 50)
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(72 = 22 + 50)
PIPETTE
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PIPETTE
(72 = 22 + 50)
PIPETTE
(69 = 19 + 50)
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(68 = 18 + 50)
PIPETTE
(66 = 16 + 50)
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(65 = 15 + 50)
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PIPETTE
(63 = 13 + 50)
PIPETTE
(63 = 13 + 50)
PIPETTE
(63 = 13 + 50)
PIPETTE
(63 = 13 + 50)
PIPETTE
(62 = 12 + 50)
APPETITE
(48)
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APPETITE
(39)
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PIPET
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PEEP
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(33)
APPETITE
(32)
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PIETA
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PETIT
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APPETITE
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PEEP
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PIETA
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APPETITE
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appetite in Words With Friends™

The word appetite is playable in Words With Friends™, no blanks required. Because it is longer than 7 letters, you would have to play off an existing word or do it in several moves.

Words With Friends™ Letter Score: 14

Highest Scoring Words With Friends™ Play In The Letters appetite:

PIPETTE
(122 = 87 + 35)

Seven Letter Word Alert: (1 word)

pipette

 

All Words With Friends™ Plays For The Word appetite

APPETITE
(96)
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(96)
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(72)
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The 200 Highest Scoring Words With Friends™ Plays Using The Letters In appetite

PIPETTE
(122 = 87 + 35)
PIPETTE
(98 = 63 + 35)
APPETITE
(96)
APPETITE
(96)
PIPETTE
(87 = 52 + 35)
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(80 = 45 + 35)
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PIPETTE
(77 = 42 + 35)
PIPETTE
(77 = 42 + 35)
APPETITE
(72)
APPETITE
(72)
APPETITE
(72)
PIPETTE
(69 = 34 + 35)
PIPETTE
(69 = 34 + 35)
APPETITE
(66)
PIPETTE
(65 = 30 + 35)
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APPETITE
(60)
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(60)
PIPETTE
(58 = 23 + 35)
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(58 = 23 + 35)
PIPETTE
(58 = 23 + 35)
PIPET
(57)
PETITE
(57)
PIPETTE
(57 = 22 + 35)
PIPETTE
(57 = 22 + 35)
APPETITE
(56)
APPETITE
(56)
PIPETTE
(54 = 19 + 35)
PEEP
(54)
APPETITE
(54)
PIPETTE
(54 = 19 + 35)
APPETITE
(54)
APPETITE
(54)
PIPE
(54)
PEEP
(54)
PIPETTE
(53 = 18 + 35)
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PETITE
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PIETA
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Words within the letters of appetite

2 letter words in appetite (7 words)

3 letter words in appetite (20 words)

4 letter words in appetite (6 words)

5 letter words in appetite (3 words)

6 letter words in appetite (1 word)

7 letter words in appetite (1 word)

8 letter words in appetite (1 word)

appetite + 1 blank (1 word)

Words containing the sequence appetite

Words that start with appetite (2 words)

Words with appetite in them (1 word)

Words that end with appetite (1 word)

Word Growth involving appetite

Shorter words in appetite

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Longer words containing appetite

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