nutritive

Speech parts

1. nutritive - Noun

2. nutritive - Adjective

3. nutritive - Adjective Satellite

Meaning

Of or pertaining to nutrition; as, the nutritive functions; having the quality of nourishing; nutritious; nutrimental; alimental; as, nutritive food or berries.

Source: Webster's dictionary

Synonyms

alimentary nutrient nutritional nutritious nourishing alimental dietetic good feeding healthy balanced beneficial digestive edible culinary
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Antonyms

nonnutritive indigestible unhealthy unwholesome insalubrious unhealthful
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Phrases with the word

having high nutritive value nutritive material extremely nutritive highly nutritive nutritive substance nutritive food

Anagrams

vetturini

Examples

Poetry and the arts can't exist in America. Mere exposure to the arts does nothing for a mentality which is incorrigibly dialectical. The vital tensions and nutritive action of ideogram remain inaccessible to this state of mind. Marshall McLuhan

Chewing transforms even toxins into nutritive substances. George Ohsawa

The flow of Guiness into the studio was inspirational as well as nutritive. Carter Burwell

We must pay greater attention to keeping our bodies and minds healthy and able to heal. Yet we are making it difficult for our defences to work. We allow things to be sold that should not be called food. Many have no nutritive value and lead to obesity, salt imbalance, and allergies. David Suzuki

good nourishing stew Source: Internet

Although he finds all fish and shellfish high in nutritive value, Alpert particularly recommends oily fish from northern oceans, including Alaskan halibut, anchovies, mackerel, salmon, sardines and tuna, all of which are high in omega-3 fatty acids. Source: Internet

Close letter words and terms

nutritious meal nutritiously nutritiousness nutritive food nutritive material nutritive substance