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unnutritious

unnutritious adjective: not nutritious.

Adjective

unnutritious (comparative more unnutritious, superlative most unnutritious)

  1. Not nutritious.
    • She, being pregnant, has used for exclusive food unnutritious substances, such as pickles, dainties, lemons, tea, brandies, etc.; or vomited all real food soon after ingestion.1866, Edward Seguin, Idiocy: and Its Treatment by the Physiological Method, page 42

Forms of unnutritious

comparativemore unnutritious
superlativemost unnutritious

Origin of unnutritious

From un- + nutritious.

Words that rhyme with unnutritious

18 more rhymesFewer rhymes

Questions about unnutritious

What does unnutritious mean?
Unnutritious means not nutritious.
What part of speech is unnutritious?
Unnutritious is an adjective.

Words near unnutritious in the dictionary

  1. unnuns
  2. unnursed
  3. unnurtured
  4. unnurturing
  5. unnutritional
  6. unnutritious
  7. unnutritive
  8. unnymphlike
  9. uno
  10. uno ab alto
  11. uno flatu

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