nutritious

English

Etymology

Learned borrowing from Latin nūtrīcius.

Pronunciation

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /njuːˈtɹɪʃəs/

• Audio (Southern England):

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• (US) IPA^(key): /nuːˈtɹɪʃəs/
• Rhymes: -ɪʃəs

Adjective

nutritious (comparative more nutritious, superlative most nutritious)

1. (of food or drink) Providing nutrients; healthy to eat.

   Synonyms: nourishing, nutritive

2. (figurative) Salutary.
   • 1861, Isaac Taylor, The Spirit of the Hebrew Poetry, page 247:

     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.

Related terms

• nutrient
• nutrition
• nutritional

 

Translations

providing nutrients

• Arabic: مُغَذٍّ (muḡaḏḏin)
• Asturian: nutritivu, alimentador, alimenticiu
• Bengali: পুষ্টিকর (bn) (puśṭikor)
• Catalan: nutritiu, nutrient (ca), nutrici, alimentós (ca), alimentador (ca)
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 有營養／有营养 (yǒu yíngyǎng)

• Czech: výživný
• Danish: næringsrig, nærende
• Dutch: voedzaam (nl)
• Finnish: ravitseva (fi)
• French: nutritif (fr)
• Galician: nutritivo (gl), nutriente (gl), alimenticio (gl), alimentador
• German: nahrhaft (de)
• Greek:

  Ancient: τρόφιμος (tróphimos)

• Hebrew: מֵזִין (he) m (mezín)
• Hungarian: tápláló (hu)
• Ido: nutriva (io), nutranta (io)
• Irish: beathúil
• Italian: nutriente (it)
• Latin: nūtrīcius
• Norwegian:

  Bokmål: næringsrik

  Nynorsk: næringsrik

• Portuguese: nutritivo (pt), nutriente (pt), nutritício, alimentoso, alimentício (pt)
• Russian: пита́тельный (ru) (pitátelʹnyj)
• Spanish: nutritivo (es), nutriente (es), alimentoso (es), alimentador (es), alimenticio (es)
• Swedish: näringsrik (sv), näringsriktig (sv)
• Tagalog: mapaniya, masustansya
• Turkish: besleyici (tr)