appetites
USAP-uh-tyts/ˈæpəˌtaɪts/UKAP-i-tyts/ˈæpɪtaɪts/
- 1Plural of appetite.
The restaurant caters to large appetites with generous portions.
Marketing campaigns are designed to stir consumers' appetites for new gadgets.
Note
A plural that appears only where desire can be counted. Appetite works both as a mass noun (a loss of appetite) and as a count noun, and the plural belongs to the count side: the hunger of several people at one table, or one person's separate cravings, bodily or mental. Beyond food it names distinct wants, often followed by for: appetites for power, for novelty, for praise.
appetites is a form of appetite
appetite, noun: The natural desire to take in food or drink. Full entry
- Forms
- appetiteappetites plural
- Spelling
- appetite → appetites: add -s
- Sound
- The ending sounds like /s/.
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