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nutritious en · ADJ

Pronunciation

• (Southern-England) audio
• /njuːˈtɹɪʃəs/ (Received-Pronunciation)
• /nuːˈtɹɪʃəs/ (US)

Etymology

Learned borrowing from Latin nūtrītius, from nūtrītus, from nūtrīre.

Meanings

1. (of food or drink) Providing nutrients; healthy to eat or drink.
2. (figuratively) Salutary.
   • A cumbrous, circuitous, and often a sophisticative mode of commenting upon the Prophets, and of darkening their meaning, had taken the place of what might have been a nutritious popular instruction. 1861, Isaac Taylor, The Spirit of the Hebrew Poetry, page 247:

Forms

Deriveds

antinutritious · innutritious · nutritiousness · supernutritious · undernutritious · nonnutritious · nutritiously · unnutritious

Relateds

nutrient · nutrition · nutritional

Synonyms

nourishing · nutritive

Translations (55)

hi पौष्टिक (providing nutrients) · da nærende (providing nutrients) · es alimenticio (providing nutrients) · fr nutritif (providing nutrients) · ast alimenticiu (providing nutrients) · fi ravitseva (providing nutrients) · la nūtrīcius (providing nutrients) · cmn 有營養 /有营养 (providing nutrients) · pt alimentoso (providing nutrients) · ar مُغَذٍّ (providing nutrients) · tr besleyici (providing nutrients) · ca nutrici (providing nutrients) · gl nutritivo (providing nutrients) · tl mapaniya (providing nutrients) · bn পুষ্টিকর (providing nutrients) · da næringsrig (providing nutrients) · pt alimentício (providing nutrients) · ast nutritivu (providing nutrients) · sv näringsrik (providing nutrients) · nl voedzaam (providing nutrients) · pt nutritivo (providing nutrients) · gl nutriente (providing nutrients) · fi ravinteikas (providing nutrients) · ru пита́тельный (providing nutrients) · io nutriva (providing nutrients) · ast alimentador (providing nutrients) · es nutriente (providing nutrients) · nb næringsrik (providing nutrients) · pl odżywczy (providing nutrients) · gl alimentador (providing nutrients) · ca nutrient (providing nutrients) · es nutritivo (providing nutrients) · grc τρόφιμος (providing nutrients) · hi पोषक (providing nutrients) · he מֵזִין (providing nutrients) · de nahrhaft (providing nutrients) · gl alimenticio (providing nutrients) · it nutriente (providing nutrients) · ga beathúil (providing nutrients) · es alimentador (providing nutrients) · io nutranta (providing nutrients) · ca alimentador (providing nutrients) · pt nutritício (providing nutrients) · sv näringsriktig (providing nutrients) · ca alimentós (providing nutrients) · nn næringsrik (providing nutrients) · tl masustansya (providing nutrients) · hu tápláló (providing nutrients) · pt nutriente (providing nutrients) · es alimentoso (providing nutrients) · sip བཅུད་ཅན (providing nutrients) · el θρεπτικός (providing nutrients) · cs výživný (providing nutrients) · ca nutritiu (providing nutrients) · pl pożywny (providing nutrients)