eating

[ ee-ting ]

noun

1. the act of a person or thing that eats.
2. food with reference to its quality or tastiness when eaten:

   This fish is delicious eating.

adjective

1. used in eating:

   They brought out plates and eating utensils for dinner.

2. good or fit to eat, especially raw: Compare baking ( def 5 ), cooking ( def 4 ).

   A sweet, crisp Gala is the perfect eating apple for a summer salad.

eating

/ ˈiːtɪŋ /

noun

1. food, esp in relation to its quality or taste

   this fruit makes excellent eating

adjective

1. relating to or suitable for eating, esp uncooked

   eating pears

2. relating to or for eating

   an eating house

Other Words From

• un·eat·ing adjective

Word History and Origins

Origin of eating¹

First recorded in 1125–75; Middle English; eat ( def ) + -ing ¹( def ) for the noun senses; eat ( def ) + -ing ² for the adjective senses

Example Sentences

Public health experts are worried about unhealthy eating, too.

From Washington Post

One problem is that we don’t know how much plastic humans are breathing in and eating.

From Popular-Science

At Children’s Hospital, in Washington, doctors are normally treating five or six eating-disorder patients on any given day.

From Washington Post

As new moms, they were seeking a better eating experience that delivered plant-based nutrition in a portable format and at a reasonable price.

From Fortune

In response, anti-diet nutritionists, therapists, and activists have taken to social media to point out that a too tight grip on your eating habits can cause anxiety and unhealthy patterns that leave you frustrated and physically uncomfortable.

From Outside Online

What celebrity has started to talk about his or her eating disorder?

From The Daily Beast

Eating disorders, researchers believed, were essentially more severe forms of disordered eating.

From The Daily Beast

Genetics alone does not an eating disorder make, generally speaking, and Bulik points out that environment still plays a role.

From The Daily Beast

Binge eating and purging does the same for someone with bulimia.

From The Daily Beast

Prevent disordered eating, then, and you can prevent eating disorders.

From The Daily Beast

Then a nervous, anxious feeling that takes away my appetite, and prevents me from eating my dinner.

From Project Gutenberg

He could easily tell where the acorns had been hidden, and, a moment later, he had rooted them up and was eating them.

From Project Gutenberg

Although everybody laughed at such a notion, the Worm-eating Warbler declared that he had a right to his own belief.

From Project Gutenberg

She wondered if there were a kind of dreadful dog which made a specialty of eating fathers.

From Project Gutenberg

In fact, his whole appearance was so alarming that Davy anxiously inquired of him what he had been eating.

From Project Gutenberg

Related Words

• chewing
• consumption
• dining