dietary

[dahy-i-ter-ee]

adjective

1. of or relating to diet.

   a dietary cure.

noun

plural

dietaries 

1. a regulated allowance of food.

2. Obsolete.,  a system or course of diet.

dietary

/ ˈdaɪətərɪ, -trɪ /

adjective

1. of or relating to a diet

noun

1. a regulated diet

2. a system of dieting

Other Word Forms

• dietarily adverb
• predietary adjective

Word History and Origins

Origin of dietary¹

1400–50; late Middle English dietarie system of diet. See diet ¹, -ary

Example Sentences

Maybe this is the moment when America’s high rate of chronic disease—which is heavily influenced by dietary habits—finally begins to decline.

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Four years earlier, England were ridiculed in the Australian media for an 82-page document that detailed their dietary requirements.

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He said it could also be down to dietary variation, as lobsters in captivity may have less access to astaxanthin-rich food, allowing the blue crustacyanin to dominate.

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"Human attraction to alcohol probably arose from this dietary heritage of our common ancestor with chimpanzees," said study researcher Aleksey Maro of the University of California, Berkeley.

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The findings point to the need for "personalised" dietary advice, grounded in health status and evolving evidence.

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