calorific
adjective
Examples of calorific in a Sentence
Ryan Hogg, Fortune Europe, 8 Feb. 2024
Chick-fil-A's spicy deluxe sandwich is the restaurant's most calorific offering at just 550 calories.
—Malak Silmi, San Antonio Express-News, 17 Sep. 2021
Known for being dense and calorific, mooncakes are typically filled with lotus seed or red bean paste and a salted egg yolk symbolizing the moon.
—Washington Post, 21 Aug. 2019
China has plenty of low-quality coal at home, but needs to blend that with cleaner, more calorific coal from abroad to hit pollution targets.
—Nathaniel Taplin, WSJ, 19 Sep. 2018
Unsurprisingly, more calorific diets went along with bigger brains.
—Cathleen O'Grady, Ars Technica, 23 Aug. 2018
Lollapalooza can be broken down and described by its three main elements: good music, delicious calorific food and, of course, flower crowns.
—Audrey Gorden, RedEye Chicago, 26 July 2017
In the early 1900s, the eponymous Alfredo di Lielo needed a calorific meal to feed his pregnant wife.
—Erin Florio, CNT, 3 Oct. 2017
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Word History
French or Latin; French calorifique, from Latin calorificus, from calor
1654, in the meaning defined at sense 2
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