appetitive

From appetite + -ive.

• enPR: ăp′ĭ-tī′tĭv, ə-pĕt′ĭ-tĭv^[1]
• (contemporary Received Pronunciation, Scotland) IPA^(key): /ˈap.ɪˌtaɪ̯.tɪv/, /əˈpɛt.ɪ.tɪv/

  (Scotland) IPA^(key): /ˈap.ɪˌtʌi̯.tɪv/, /ˈap.ɪˌtəi̯.tɪv/

• (conservative Received Pronunciation, General American, Canada) IPA^(key): /ˈæp.ɪˌtaɪ̯.tɪv/, /əˈpɛt.ɪ.tɪv/

  (Canada) IPA^(key): /ˈæp.ɪˌtʌɪ̯.tɪv/

• (General Australian) IPA^(key): /ˈæp.ɪˌtɑe̯.tɪv/, /əˈpet.ɪ.tɪv/
• (New Zealand) IPA^(key): /ˈɛp.əˌtaɪ̯.təv/, /əˈpet.ə.təv/
• (India) IPA^(key): /ˈap.ɪˌʈaj.ʈɪv/, /aˈpɛʈ.ɪ.ʈɪv/
• Rhymes: -æpɪtaɪtɪv, -apɪtaɪtɪv, -ɛtɪtɪv
• Hyphenation: ap‧pe‧ti‧tive^[1]

appetitive (comparative more appetitive, superlative most appetitive)

1. Having the quality of desiring gratification.

   Synonym: desiring

   appetitive behavior

   appetitive signals

   • 1988 December 11, Tim Walton, “The Novel That Puts Gay Male Liberation — Through Sex — To The Test”, in Gay Community News, volume 16, number 22, page 9:

     This is a novel that puts gay liberation to the test. It places before us the complex reality of a life of appetitive, atomistic sexuality. It calls into question all the optimism we ever felt about the liberating potential of free sexual expression, in particular, its redemptive potential for rich, white men.

• “appetitive”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.

• IPA^(key): /ap.pe.tiˈti.ve/
• Rhymes: -ive
• Hyphenation: ap‧pe‧ti‧tì‧ve

appetitive

1. feminine plural of appetitivo

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): [ap.pɛ.tiːˈtiː.wɛ]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): [ap.pe.tiˈtiː.ve]
• Hyphenation: ap‧pe‧tī‧tī‧ve

appetītīve

1. vocative masculine singular of appetītīvus