Appetized

Part of speech: adjective

Definitions

1. having a heightened inclination towards food or dining options
2. Made more inviting or attractive to the desire for food
3. Enhanced in a way that increases eagerness to eat

Etymology: "Appetized" is the past form of "appetize", a verb meaning to make food or something else more appealing or tempting. The verb did not come first. It was created by stripping the "-ing" ending from "appetizing", which is itself a word people had been using for a while. In English, adjectives ending in "-ing" are sometimes shortened in this way, and speakers then treat the shorter form as a fresh verb that can be conjugated, so "appetize" gained a past tense of its own, "appetized". The adjective "appetizing" comes from "appetite", which traces back through Old French to Latin "appetitus", from "appetere" meaning to strive after or seek. "Appetize" is therefore a back-formation: the root "appetite" was not shortened directly, but a verb was derived from the existing adjective "appetizing" and then given regular verb endings.

Synonyms: hungry, eager, desirous, craving, yearning

Antonyms: full, sated, satisfied, replete, disinterested