caloric means relating to calories. Lexicurio rates it Rare gem — a strength score of 74 out of 100.
caloric is pronounced /kəˈlɒɹɪk/.
Etymology
From calorie + -ic. From French calorique, coined by French chemist Antoine Lavoisier, from Latin calor (“heat”).
adj
- Relating to calories.“caloric intake”
- Containing calories.“Milk is a caloric beverage.”
- Synonym of calorific (“high in calories and thus likely fattening”).“a dry, caloric food”
- Synonym of calorific (“relating to or producing heat or other energy”).
noun
- The hypothetical medium of heat.“The fluid matter of heat, or Calorique, in which all bodies are immersed, is as necessary to vegetable as to animal existence.”