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undernutritious

undernutritious adjective: offering inadequate nutrition.

Adjective

undernutritious (comparative more undernutritious, superlative most undernutritious)

  1. Offering inadequate nutrition.
    • undernutritious junk foods

Forms of undernutritious

comparativemore undernutritious
superlativemost undernutritious

Origin of undernutritious

From under- + nutritious.

Questions about undernutritious

What does undernutritious mean?
Undernutritious means offering inadequate nutrition.
What part of speech is undernutritious?
Undernutritious is an adjective.

Words near undernutritious in the dictionary

  1. underntide
  2. undernurse
  3. undernurses
  4. undernutrition
  5. undernutritional
  6. undernutritious
  7. underobturation
  8. underoccupancy
  9. underoccupation
  10. underoccupied
  11. underofficer

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