Word.ws English Dictionary

low-calorie

low-calorie adjective: of a diet, involving eating a lower number of calories than would normally eaten, usually with the intention of losing weight.

Adjective

low-calorie (comparative lower-calorie, superlative lowest-calorie)

  1. Of a diet, involving eating a lower number of calories than would normally eaten, usually with the intention of losing weight.
  2. Of a food or drink, having fewer calories than its standard form.
    Synonyms:
    diet, low-cal

Synonyms of low-calorie

Forms of low-calorie

comparativelower-calorie
superlativelowest-calorie
alternative formlow-caloric

Questions about low-calorie

What does low-calorie mean?
Low-calorie means of a diet, involving eating a lower number of calories than would normally eaten, usually with the intention of losing weight.
What part of speech is low-calorie?
Low-calorie is an adjective.

Words near low-calorie in the dictionary

  1. low-bred
  2. low-brow
  3. low-budget
  4. low-cal
  5. low-caloric
  6. low-calorie
  7. low-carb
  8. low-carber
  9. low-carbers
  10. low-church
  11. low-class

Source and license

Adapted from Wiktionary: low-calorie (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

Last updated:

Cite this entry: “low-calorie.” Word.ws, https://word.ws/low-calorie. Based on Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.