nutritious
adjUK /njuːˈtɹɪʃəs/ · US /nuːˈtɹɪʃəs/
Etymology Learned borrowing from Latin nūtrītius, from nūtrītus, from nūtrīre.
1
Of food or drink Providing nutrients; healthy to eat or drink.
2
Figuratively Salutary.
- 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.1861, Isaac Taylor, The Spirit of the Hebrew Poetry, page 247:
- Derived terms
- antinutritious, innutritious, nonnutritious, nutritiously, nutritiousness, supernutritious, undernutritious, unnutritious
- Related terms
- nutrient, nutrition, nutritional