The Collaborative International Dictionary
Appetitive \Ap"pe*ti"tive\, a. [Cf. F. app['e]titif.]
Having the quality of desiring gratification; as, appetitive
power or faculty.
--Sir M. Hale.
Wiktionary
a. Having the quality of desiring gratification.
WordNet
adj. of or relating to appetite; "appetitive needs"
Usage examples of "appetitive".
Such perfumes from a restaurant kitchen would have alarmed Dalziel, who liked his food plain dressed, but from the warm oven of this woman's mouth, they were disturbingly appetitive, setting juices running he thought had long since dried to a trickle.
Such perfumes from a restaurant kitchen would have alarmed Dalziel, who liked his food plain dressed, but from the warm oven of this woman's mouth, they were disturbingly appetitive, setting juices running he thought had long since dried to a trickle.
And my appetitive act was, as it happened, accompanied by a trembling of the whole body, by a physical impulse to cry out and to writhe.