Nutritious

//njuːˈtɹɪʃəs// adj

adj ·Uncommon ·College level

Definitions

Adjective
  1. 1
    Providing nutrients; healthy to eat or drink.
  2. 2
    Salutary. figuratively

    "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."

Adjective
  1. 1
    of or providing nourishment wordnet

Synonyms

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alimentarynourishingalimentalalimentalalimentaryassimilable

Example

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"You have to eat nutritious foods."

Etymology

Learned borrowing from Latin nūtrītius, from nūtrītus, from nūtrīre.

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