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macrobiotic

adjective

macrobiotic is an adjective meaning “Of a lifestyle incorporating a dietary regimen including locally grown, seasonal, natural foods, or of the diet itself” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). It is spelled M-A-C-R-O-B-I-O-T-I-C, and it appears about once in every 13 million words in written English (wordfreq, 2021 data).

What does macrobiotic mean?

adjective

  1. 1

    Of a lifestyle incorporating a dietary regimen including locally grown, seasonal, natural foods, or of the diet itself.

  2. 2

    Long-lived.

Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).

How do you pronounce macrobiotic?

  • US

Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract). Recordings: En-us-macrobiotic.ogg, Wikimedia Commons (author and licence on each file's page).

Forms of macrobiotic

  • more macrobiotic comparative
  • most macrobiotic superlative

Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).

How common is macrobiotic?

Macrobiotic appears about once in every 13 million words in written English, the 110,368th most frequent word form in the list.

Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).

How do you abbreviate macrobiotic?

Wiktionary records one abbreviation of macrobiotic: macro.

Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).

Macrobiotic in Spanish, French, German and Portuguese

In the sense diet:

LanguageWords
Frenchmacrobiotique
Germanmakrobiotisch
Spanishmacrobiótico

Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract). Translations are Wiktionary's, by sense; a linked word has its own PlainSpell page.

Where does macrobiotic come from?

From macro- + -biotic.

Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).