減食|げんしょくgenshoku[0]heiban (flat)

Common
Definitions
  1. noun, suru verb, intransitive verbcutting down on food intake; reducing rations; reducing allowance of food
    彼かれは減食げんしょくしたが、それでもまだ相変あいかわらずとても太ふとっていた。↗
    Though he dieted, he still remained too fat.
Conjugation
Dictionary form減食する(げんしょくする)
Polite (masu)減食します(げんしょくします)
Negative (nai)減食しない(げんしょくしない)
polite (masen)減食しません(げんしょくしません)
classical zu / nu減食せず・減食せぬ(げんしょくせず・げんしょくせぬ)
Past (ta)減食した(げんしょくした)
polite (mashita)減食しました(げんしょくしました)
Past negative (nakatta)減食しなかった(げんしょくしなかった)
polite (masen deshita)減食しませんでした(げんしょくしませんでした)
Te form減食して(げんしょくして)
Potential減食できる(げんしょくできる)
Passive減食される(げんしょくされる)
Causative減食させる(げんしょくさせる)
Causative passive減食させられる(げんしょくさせられる)
Conditional (ba)減食すれば(げんしょくすれば)
tara減食したら(げんしょくしたら)
Volitional減食しよう(げんしょくしよう)
polite (mashou)減食しましょう(げんしょくしましょう)
Imperative減食しろ(げんしょくしろ)

Common forms generated by rule; see the senses for honorific or irregular usage.

Synonyms & antonyms
  • Synonym節食せっしょくWrittenWritten word for moderately curbing one's eating—self-restraint in diet. 「減食」 can additionally mean cutting rations as punishment.
  • RelatedダイエットNeutralEveryday loanword for dieting or losing weight, exercise included; the most common choice. 「減食」 is narrower—reducing meal portions or rations.
  • Related食事制限しょくじせいげんWrittenWritten/formal: limiting what or how much you eat for health or treatment; the medical slant sets it apart from 「減食」.
  • Antonym過食かしょくWrittenWritten/formal term for overeating or bingeing—the opposite of cutting down how much one eats.
  • Antonym大食たいしょくCasualColloquial: having a big appetite, eating a lot or being greedy with food; opposite of deliberately eating less.

For everyday weight loss, 「ダイエット」 is the word. 「食事制限」 is written, for health or treatment; 「節食」 is written self-restraint. 「減食」 covers eating less or reduced rations, even as punishment; 「過食」 and 「大食」 are its opposites.

Usage comparisons are AI-assisted and cross-checked by multiple models; for study reference only

Japanese definitions
  1. 食事しょくじの量りょうを減へらすこと。
  2. 受刑者じゅけいしゃに対たいする懲罰ちょうばつの一ひとつで、食糧しょくりょうを減へらすこと。
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