dietetic

[ dahy-i-tet-ik ]

/ ˌdaɪ ɪˈtɛt ɪk /

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adjective Also di·e·tet·i·cal.

pertaining to diet or to regulation of the use of food.

prepared or suitable for special diets, especially those requiring a restricted sugar intake: a jar of dietetic jelly.

noun

dietetics, (used with a singular verb) the science concerned with the nutritional planning and preparation of foods.

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Origin of dietetic

1535–45; <Latin diaeteticus<Greek diatētikós, equivalent to diatē-, variant stem of diaitân to treat, regulate (derivative of díaitadiet¹) + -tikos-tic

OTHER WORDS FROM dietetic

di·e·tet·i·cal·ly, adverbnon·di·e·tet·ic, adjectivenon·di·e·tet·i·cal·ly, adverb

Words nearby dietetic

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How to use dietetic in a sentence

She decided to use her undergraduate degree in food science and her postgraduate degree in dietetics to begin debunking more clips—but she quickly realized that many hacks weren’t just fake but actually dangerous.
The YouTube baker fighting back against deadly “craft hacks”|Amelia Tait|September 23, 2022|MIT Technology Review
In 1906, Frederick Gowland Hopkins of Cambridge University challenged his colleagues to learn more about what he called “unsuspected dietetic factors” in an organism’s health.
One man’s crusade to end a global scourge with better salt|Katie McLean|December 18, 2020|MIT Technology Review
It must be made perfectly clear, said the bishop, that Christianity was a religion, and not a dietetic dogma.
Love's Pilgrimage|Upton Sinclair
The vestry declined to compromise, and insisted on allowing tobacco as a non-dietetic indulgence.
English Poor Law Policy|Sidney Webb

For instance the three departments of medicine are the rhetorical, the dietetic, and the surgical and pharmaceutical.
The Histories of Polybius, Vol. II (of 2)|Polybius
Excess of starch, so my experience has convinced me, is the deadliest of all dietetic errors.
The Book of Life: Vol. I Mind and Body; Vol. II Love and Society|Upton Sinclair
This brings up my dietetic history, to the period at which it commences, in the letter to Dr. North.
Vegetable Diet: As Sanctioned by Medical Men, and by Experience in All Ages|William Andrus Alcott

British Dictionary definitions for dietetic

dietetic

dietetical

/ (ˌdaɪɪˈtɛtɪk) /

adjective

denoting or relating to diet or the regulation of food intake

prepared for special dietary requirements

Derived forms of dietetic

dietetically, adverb

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dietetic

Origin of dietetic

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British Dictionary definitions for dietetic

dietetical

Derived forms of dietetic