Nurturant

//ˈnəːtʃəɹənt// adj, noun

adj, noun ·Rare ·Advanced level

Definitions

Noun
  1. 1
    That which nurtures; a nurturing factor or influence.

    "By removing one or another aspect from an organism's visual environment, one can determine the essential visual nurturants. The latter are then considered the basic visual-environmental determinants of the development of visual perception."

Adjective
  1. 1
    That provides nourishment; nurturing.

    "Go to readings, read books like this anthology, read the publications, become nurturant and enriched and educated about what's going on around them, form writing support groups."

Adjective
  1. 1
    providing physical and emotional care and nourishment wordnet

Synonyms

All synonyms
compassionate

Example

More examples

"Go to readings, read books like this anthology, read the publications, become nurturant and enriched and educated about what's going on around them, form writing support groups."

Etymology

From nurture + -ant.

More for "nurturant"

SynonymsSentencesPronunciationTranslate

Next best steps

Find stronger synonymsSee usage examplesCheck pronunciationBrowse writing guides

Data sourced from Wiktionary, WordNet, CMU, and other open linguistic databases. Updated March 2026.