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innutritive

innutritive adjective: lacking in nutrition.

Adjective

innutritive (comparative more innutritive, superlative most innutritive)

  1. (archaic) Lacking in nutrition.
    • Others indulge themselves in perpetual reverie. They walk alone in the cloister,—in the garden. They feed themselves with the poison of delicious, innutritive illusion.1820, [Charles Robert Maturin], Melmoth the Wanderer: A Tale. […], volume I, Edinburgh: […] Archibald Constable and Company, and Hurst, Robinson, and Co., […], →OCLC, page 302
    • The other principle--the innutritive portion--passes from the intestines, and is thus got rid of.1859-1861, Mrs. Isabella Beeton, The Book of Household Management

Forms of innutritive

comparativemore innutritive
superlativemost innutritive

Origin of innutritive

From in- + nutritive.

Questions about innutritive

What does innutritive mean?
Innutritive means lacking in nutrition.
What part of speech is innutritive?
Innutritive is an adjective.

Words near innutritive in the dictionary

  1. innumerous
  2. innundated
  3. Innus
  4. innutrition
  5. innutritious
  6. innutritive
  7. Innviertel
  8. Innwa
  9. inny
  10. innyard
  11. innyards

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