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macrobiotic

macrobiotic adjective: of a lifestyle incorporating a dietary regimen including locally grown, seasonal, natural foods, or of the diet itself.

Adjective

macrobiotic (comparative more macrobiotic, superlative most macrobiotic)

  1. Of a lifestyle incorporating a dietary regimen including locally grown, seasonal, natural foods, or of the diet itself.
    • You let somebody move in with you, you make all these little compromises to smooth things along, and the next thing you know, you're on some macrobiotic diet, you're listening to Joni Mitchell!1999, Shana Larsen, 200 Cigarettes (motion picture), spoken by Kevin (Paul Rudd)
  2. Long-lived.

Forms of macrobiotic

comparativemore macrobiotic
superlativemost macrobiotic

Origin of macrobiotic

From macro- + -biotic.

Words formed from macrobiotic

Questions about macrobiotic

What does macrobiotic mean?
Macrobiotic means of a lifestyle incorporating a dietary regimen including locally grown, seasonal, natural foods, or of the diet itself.
What part of speech is macrobiotic?
Macrobiotic is an adjective.

Words near macrobiotic in the dictionary

  1. macrobiosis
  2. macrobiota
  3. macrobiotas
  4. macrobiote
  5. macrobiotes
  6. macrobiotic
  7. macrobiotically
  8. macrobiotics
  9. macrobiotid
  10. macrobiotids
  11. macroblast

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