calorie-free

1. 1.

   having relatively few calories

   “diet cola”

   “light (or lite) beer”

   “lite (or light) mayonnaise”

   “a low-cal diet”

   Synonymslightlitelow-cal

   Similarnonfat

Questions about calorie-free

What does calorie-free mean?

calorie-free means "having relatively few calories".

How many syllables are in calorie-free?

calorie-free has 4 syllables: ca-lo-rie--free. The stress falls on "lo".

What is another word for calorie-free?

Close synonyms include light, lite, low-cal. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is calorie-free a common word?

calorie-free is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.