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nutritive

/ˈnjuːtɹətɪv/

nutritive adjective: of or pertaining to nutrition.

Adjective

nutritive (comparative more nutritive, superlative most nutritive)

  1. Of or pertaining to nutrition.
  2. Nourishing, providing nutrition.
    • The juice of the ripe grape is a nutritive and agreeable food, consisting chiefly of sugar and mucilage.1789, Erasmus Darwin, The Loves of the Plants, J. Johnson, page 110
    • The percentage of nutritive elements contained in the parsnip is very small; so small, indeed, that one pound of parsnips affords hardly one fifth of an ounce of nitrogenous or muscle-forming material.1892, Ella Eaton Kellogg, “Vegetables”, in Science in the Kitchen: A Scientific Treatise on Food Substances and Their Dietetic Properties, Together with a Practical Explanation of the Principles of...

Noun

nutritive (plural nutritives)

  1. (archaic) A nutrient.

nutritive meaning in Hindi, Tamil, Urdu and Bengali

nutritive in Hindi

nourishing, providing nutrition
पोषक poṣak, पौष्टिक pauṣṭik

nutritive in Tamil

போசணைக்குரிய, ஊட்ட சத்துள்ள, ஊட்டச் சத்துக் குறிய

nutritive in Urdu

غذادار, غذائیت بخش, مغزی

nutritive in Bengali

খাদ্য হিসেবে গ্রহণযোগ্য, পুষ্টিবিষয়ক

Synonyms of nutritive

Antonyms

Forms of nutritive

Adjective
comparativemore nutritive
superlativemost nutritive
Noun
pluralnutritives

Origin of nutritive

From Middle French nutritif, from Late Latin nūtritīvus, from the participle stem of Latin nūtriō (“to suckle”).

Words formed from nutritive

Questions about nutritive

What does nutritive mean?
Nutritive means of or pertaining to nutrition.
What is nutritive in Hindi?
Nutritive in Hindi is पोषक (poṣak), पौष्टिक (pauṣṭik). See Nutritive meaning in Hindi.
What part of speech is nutritive?
Nutritive can be an adjective or a noun.
How do you pronounce nutritive?
Nutritive is pronounced /ˈnjuːtɹətɪv/ (UK).

Words near nutritive in the dictionary

  1. nutritions
  2. nutritionwise
  3. nutritious
  4. nutritiously
  5. nutritiousness
  6. nutritive
  7. nutritively
  8. nutritiveness
  9. nutritives
  10. nutritory
  11. nutriture

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Adapted from Wiktionary: nutritive (page history and authors); nutritive (Tamil Wiktionary) (page history and authors); nutritive (Urdu Wiktionary) (page history and authors); nutritive (Bengali Wiktionary) (page history and authors). 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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