nutritious
/njuːˈtɹɪʃəs/US/nuːˈtɹɪʃəs/
nutritious adjective: providing nutrients; healthy to eat or drink.
Adjective
nutritious (comparative more nutritious, superlative most nutritious)
- Providing nutrients; healthy to eat or drink.
- Synonyms:
- nourishing, nutritive
- 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
nutritious meaning in Hindi, Tamil, Marathi and Urdu
nutritious in Hindi
- providing nutrients
- पोषक poṣak, पौष्टिक pauṣṭik
nutritious in Tamil
- ஊட்டமிக்க, ஊட்டச் சத்துமிகை
nutritious in Marathi
- पौष्टिक, पोषणक्षम
nutritious in Urdu
- غذابخش, مغزی, مقوی, قوت بخش
More languagesFewer languages
- nutritious in Bengali
- পুষ্টিকর puśṭikor
- nutritious in Telugu
- పోషకమైనవి
- nutritious in Malayalam
- പോഷക, പോഷകഗുണമുള്ള, പോഷകകരമായ, സമ്പുഷ്ടമായ
- nutritious in Kannada
- ಪೋಷಕ, ಪೌಷ್ಟಿಕ, ಪುಷ್ಟಿದಾಯಕ, ಪುಷ್ಟಿಕರ
- nutritious in Punjabi
- ਪੌਸ਼ਟਿਕ
- nutritious in Gujarati
- પૌષ્ટિક, પોષણયુક્ત, પોષક
- nutritious in Odia
- ପୁଷ୍ଟିକର, ପୁଷ୍ଟିକର |
- nutritious in Tagalog
- mapaniya, masustansya
- nutritious in Arabic
- مُغَذٍّ muḡaḏḏin
Examples of nutritious in a sentence
- For some instant noodles make a palatable, if not especially nutritious, meal.
- Some people swear by the theory that a darker-yolked egg makes for a more nutritious meal.
- I brought a bunch of random snacks, but nothing nutritious.
Synonyms of nutritious
Forms of nutritious
| comparative | more nutritious |
|---|---|
| superlative | most nutritious |
Origin of nutritious
Learned borrowing from Latin nūtrītius, from nūtrītus, from nūtrīre.
Words formed from nutritious
Words that rhyme with nutritious
Questions about nutritious
- What does nutritious mean?
- Nutritious means providing nutrients; healthy to eat or drink.
- What is nutritious in Hindi?
- Nutritious in Hindi is पोषक (poṣak), पौष्टिक (pauṣṭik). See Nutritious meaning in Hindi.
- What part of speech is nutritious?
- Nutritious is an adjective.
- How do you pronounce nutritious?
- Nutritious is pronounced /njuːˈtɹɪʃəs/ (UK).
Words near nutritious in the dictionary
Source and license
Adapted from Wiktionary: nutritious (page history and authors); nutritious (Tamil Wiktionary) (page history and authors); nutritious (Marathi, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license); nutritious (Urdu Wiktionary) (page history and authors); nutritious (Telugu, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license); nutritious (Olam, E.K. Kurup corpus) (dataset and license); nutritious (Kannada Wiktionary) (page history and authors); nutritious (Punjabi, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license); nutritious (Gujarati, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license); nutritious (Odia, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.
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