macrobiotics

1. 1.

   the theory of promoting health and longevity by means of diet (especially whole beans and grains)

   Broaderdietetics

Other forms of macrobiotics

plural

macrobioticses·

Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.

Questions about macrobiotics

What does macrobiotics mean?

macrobiotics means "the theory of promoting health and longevity by means of diet (especially whole beans and grains)".

How many syllables are in macrobiotics?

macrobiotics has 5 syllables and divides as ma-cro-bi-o-tics under the regular spelling rules. It is not in the CMU Pronouncing Dictionary, so that comes from how the word is written rather than from a recorded pronunciation, and no stress or phonetic transcription is claimed for it.