Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Macrobiotic \Mac`ro*bi*ot"ic\, a. [Gr. ? long-lived; makro`s long + bi`os life: cf. F. macrobiotique.]
Long-lived. -- Dunglison.
Of or pertaining to macrobiotics.
Of or pertaining to macrobiotic food; serving macrobiotic food.
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
Wiktionary
a. 1 longlived 2 Of a lifestyle incorporating a dietary regimen including locally grown, seasonal, natural foods, or of the diet itself.
WordNet
adj. of or relating to the theory or practice of macrobiotics; "macrobiotic diet"
Wikipedia
Usage examples of "macrobiotic".
I visit a Reiki master, which leads to a macrobiotic diet, yoga classes, meditation, and a pilgrimage to Tibet, where I write a travel book that gets banned in China.
I just wanted to thank you again for that macrobiotic cookbook you wrote for us last year.
Your nutritionist would have nodded over his wheat germ or his macrobiotic rice cakes, your priest would have dropped to his knees and looked at the sky, your geneticist would have a pet theory about generation-skipping and would assure you that your grandparents probably had spontaneous remissions, too, and never knew it.
He also made a large macrobiotic salad because he liked contradictions.
He experimented with homeopathy and tried to get on a macrobiotic diet.
The light outside was fading by the time he had fixed a macrobiotic dinner, eaten it slowly to avoid taxing his digestive system, drunk two glasses of distilled water, and taken one aspirin from a new package that he inspected for signs of tampering.
Brian had already had a macrobiotic breakfast with his current Swede, Elke, so he jumped at the prospect of going to a greasy spoon.
Your own kitchen, so you can make those macrobiotic messes you like so much .
I walked east from Kensington with a mesh bag filled with onions and Havarti cheese, and soon enough found myself on Harbord Street, which had moved another notch upscale since the old days, more restaurants now, fewer macrobiotic shops, the palm readers and bead shops banished for good and all.
Party,' the strange-seeming but politically prescient annular agnation of ultra-right jingoist hunt-deer-with-automatic-weapons types and far-left macrobiotic Save-the-Ozone, -Rain-Forests, -Whales, -Spotted-Owl-and-High-pH-Waterways ponytailed granola-crunchers, a surreal union of both Rush L.
I listen to her drone on about her macrobiotic diet, and she's always willing to write me a note so I can get out of volleyball in RE.
Numerous face lifts, combined with a macrobiotic diet, massive amounts of vitamins, and weekly infusions of hormones, seemed to have stopped the evidence of his advancing age.
During the macrobiotic sixties, it had fallen into disfavor, relying somewhat precariously on the custom of perverse right-wing producers who used it to inflict their version of power lunches on hapless Beverly Hills trendies.
I learned that some of the old customers had opened schools of transcendental meditation or macrobiotic restaurants.