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Definition: Nutritious |
NutritiousAdjective1. Providing nourishment; "good nourishing food". Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
Date "nutritious" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1762. (references) |
Etymology: Nutritious \Nu*tri"tious\, adjective. [Latin expression nutricius, nutritius, from nutrix, -icis, nurse, nutrire to nourish. See Nurse, Nourish.]. (Websters 1913) |
Synonyms: NutritiousSynonyms: alimentary (adj), nourishing (adj), nutrient (adj), nutritive (adj). (additional references) |
| Context | Synonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus). |
Food | Adjective: eatable, edible, esculent, comestible, alimentary; cereal, cibarious; dietetic; culinary; nutritive, nutritious; gastric; succulent; potable, potulent; bibulous. |
Remedy | Dietetic, alimentary; nutritious, nutritive; peptic; |
Salubrity | Adjective: salubrious, salutary, salutiferous; wholesome; healthy, healthful; sanitary, prophYlactic, benign, bracing, tonic, invigorating, good for, nutritious; hygeian, hygienic. |
| Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus. | |
Crosswords: Nutritious |
| English words defined with "nutritious": bone marrow, Bottle grass ♦ cajan pea, casava, cassava, Chick-pea, Connutritious ♦ dahl ♦ Glycine max ♦ Innutritious ♦ marrow, Mexican coca, milk ♦ Nutrimental, Nutritial ♦ pigeon pea, Pinole ♦ Salep, soja, soja bean, Sowens, soy, soya, soya bean, soybean, soybean plant. (references) |
| Specialty definitions using "nutritious": Air ♦ COLOCASIA ANTIQUORUM ♦ Expanded Food and Nutrition Education Program ♦ Food and Nutrition Service, Food stamp receipt ♦ School meals initiative for healthy children. (references) |
| Etymologies containing "nutritious": Connutritious ♦ Nutritial, Nutrition. (references) |
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Clever | Kids Make Nutritious Snacks (references; author: unknown) | |
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 | Nutritious veggie snacks for the 4H summer camp.Credit: USDA. |  | A child enjoys a nutritious snack at the daycare center at the Arkansaa Children's Hospital in Little Rock, Ark.Credit: USDA. |
 | More nutritious rice could come from descendants of these plants, whose ancestors were grown by Gideon Schaeffer from tissue-cultured cells specially selected for their high lysine content. P.Credit: USDA ARS News; photo by Scott Bauer.. |  | Colorful and tasty nuna beans will pop after a few minutes of cooking. Someday they may appear on supermarket shelves as a nutritious snack food.Credit: USDA ARS News. |
 | Chemist Joyce Foster extracts chemicals to determine which plants are safe, palatable, and nutritious for livestock. P.Credit: USDA ARS News; photo by Scott Bauer.. |  | Eat nutritious food. Find fun in exercise. Sleep and relaxation. Cleanliness.Credit: National Library of Medicine. |
 | [Various foods presented as nutritious for pregnant women].Credit: National Library of Medicine. |  | Mrs. Roosevelt is served a Victory lunch on her visit to General Motors' Eastern Aircraft Division in Linden, New Jersey. Consisting of a small steak, two vegetables, salad, enriched breads, custard and a glass of milk, this highly nutritious lunch is pro.Credit: Library of Congress. |
 | Wholesome - nutritious foods from corn / Lloyd Harrison.Credit: Library of Congress. |  | Wholesome - nutritious foods from corn / Lloyd Harrison.Credit: Library of Congress. |
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| Subject | Topic | Quote |
Health | Eating a well-balanced, nutritious diet can be beneficial for anybody. (references) | |
People are encouraged to follow a nutritious diet and avoid any foods that seem to worsen symptoms. (references) | ||
You may first try to make some changes in the way you live. Start with a nutritious diet. Contact the National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute for more information about reducing your risk of heart disease (See Resources). (references) | ||
Economic History | Vietnam | Vietnamese took savings hoarded in mattresses and began building homes and purchasing motorbikes, electronics, and more nutritious food. (references) |
Lexicography | Devil's Dictionary | AIR, n. A nutritious substance supplied by a bountiful Providence for the fattening of the poor. |
Source: compiled by the editor from ICON Group International, Inc.; see credits. | ||
| "Nutritious" is generally used as an adjective (general or positive) -- approximately 100.00% of the time. "Nutritious" is used about 156 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted) |
| Parts of Speech | Percent | Usage per 100 Million Words | Rank in English |
| Adjective (general or positive) | 100% | 156 | 25,144 |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
Expressions using "nutritious": be nutritious ♦ highly nutritious. Additional references. | |
| Hypenated Usage | |
Ending with "nutritious": non-nutritious. | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com. |
| Expression | Frequency per Day | Expression | Frequency per Day |
nutritious meal | 580 | fruit most nutritious | 4 |
nutritious cooking | 577 | cost low nutritious recipe | 4 |
nutritious food | 21 | eating nutritious | 3 |
nutritious creation | 20 | nutritious menu | 3 |
nutritious | 14 | kid nutritious snacks | 3 |
nutritious recipe | 10 | good meal nutritious | 2 |
nutritious snacks | 10 | kid meal nutritious | 2 |
nutritious diet | 6 | nutritious recipe snacks | 2 |
kid lunch nutritious | 5 | kid nutritious recipe | 2 |
most nutritious vegetable | 4 | nutritious recipe snack | 2 |
food most nutritious | 4 | fact nutritious | 2 |
nutritious breakfast | 4 | meal nutritious wheels | 2 |
bean nutritious | 4 | child nutritious snacks | 2 |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |||
| Language | Translations for "nutritious"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Albanian | i ushqiteshëm. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Arabic | مفيد للجسم, مغذ (alimentary, nourishing, nutrient, nutritive, sustaining). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Bulgarian | хранителен (alimentary, comestible, food, nourishing, nutrient, nutritive, rich). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Chinese | 滋补 (restorative). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Czech | výživný (nourishing, nutrient, nutritive, pabulary, substantial). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Farsi | مغذی (Nutrient, Nutritive). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Finnish | ravitseva (nourishing). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
French | nutritif (nutrient, nutriment, nutrimental, nutritive). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
German | nahrhaft (alimentary, fertile, nourishing, nutrient, nutritiously, nutritive, nutritively, rich, solid, substantial). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Greek | θρεπτικόσ (alimentary, nourishing, nutrient, nutritional, nutritive). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Hebrew | מזין (alimentary, feeder, nutrient, nutritive, sustaining), תזו תי (nutritive). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Hungarian | tápláló (afferent, alimentary, feeder, feeding, hearty, nourishing, nurturer, nutrient, nutritive, rich, substantial, sustaining, wholesome). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Indonesian | bergizi (nourishing). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Italian | nutriente (feeding, nourishing, nutrient, nutritive). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Japanese Kanji | 滋味に富む (delicious). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Japanese Katakana | じみにとむ (delicious). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Korean | 영양분이 있". (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Manx | beaghee. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Pig Latin | utritiousnay nutritivo (nourishing, nutriment, nutritive), nutricionista. (various references) nutritiv (alimental, food, nourishing, numinous, nutritive, wholesome), hrãnitor (alimental, nourishing, numinous, nutritive, wholesome). (various references) питательный (nourishing, nutrient, nutritive, trophic). (various references) hranljiv (nourishing, nutrient, nutritional, nutritive, restorative). (various references) nutritivo (nourishing, nutrient, nutritiously, nutritive, sustaining). (various references) näringsrik. (various references) ซึ่งบำรุงสุข าพ (nutritive). (various references) gıdalı, besleyici (alimentary, feeder, nourishing, nutrient, nutritive, rich, substantial, sustaining, trophic). (various references) поживний (alimentary, battle, nourishing, nutrient, nutritional, nutritive, substantial). (various references) có chất bổ; dinh dưỡng, bổ (nutrient, reconstituent). (various references) maethlon (nourishing). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Derivations | |
Words beginning with "nutritious": nutritiously, nutritiousness, nutritiousnesses. (additional references) | |
Words ending with "nutritious": nonnutritious. (additional references) | |
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"Nutritious" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: Negritoiu, Nutricia, nutricious, nutritions. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
| # of Phoneme Matches | Pronunciation | Word(s) rhyming with "nutritious" (pronounced nuwtri"shus) |
| 5 | -r i" sh u s | capricious. |
| 4 | -i" sh u s | ambitious, auspicious, delicious, expeditious, factitious, fictitious, inauspicious, injudicious, judicious, malicious, pernicious, propitious, repetitious, seditious, superstitious, surreptitious, suspicious, vicious. |
| 3 | -sh u s | anxious, atrocious, audacious, capacious, cautious, conscientious, conscious, contentious, efficacious, facetious, fallacious, ferocious, flirtatious, fractious, gracious, hellacious, herbaceous, infectious, loquacious, luscious, nauseous, noxious, obnoxious, ostentatious, overambitious, precious, precocious, predaceous, pretentious, pugnacious, rambunctious, rapacious, salacious, sebaceous, semiprecious, spacious, specious, subconscious, tenacious, tendentious, unconscious, unpretentious, vexatious, vivacious, voracious. |
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Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "i-i-n-o-r-s-t-t-u-u" | |
-2 letters: introits, outturns, tuitions, turnouts, unitrust. | |
-3 letters: intorts, introit, intrust, intuits, ironist, nitrous, outruns, outturn, ruinous, runouts, surtout, tourist, tritons, tuition, turnout, urinous. | |
-4 letters: intort, intros, intuit, nitros, otitis, outrun, outsin, outsit, runout, rutins, stotin, strunt, suitor, triton, trouts, tutors. | |
-5 letters: intis, intro, irons, nitro, noirs, noris, ornis, riots, rosin, rotis, roust, routs, ruins, runts. | |
| Words containing the letters "i-i-n-o-r-s-t-t-u-u" | |
+2 letters: nutritiously, outintrigues. | |
+3 letters: nonnutritious, rectitudinous. | |
+4 letters: nutritiousness, supernutrition. | |
+5 letters: substitutionary, supernutritions, ultimogenitures, undernutritions. | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. SCRABBLE® is a registered trademark. All intellectual property rights in and to the game are owned in the U.S.A and Canada by Hasbro Inc., and throughout the rest of the world by J.W. Spear & Sons Limited of Maidenhead, Berkshire, England, a subsidiary of Mattel Inc. Mattel and Spear are not affiliated with Hasbro. | |
Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)4E 75 74 72 69 74 69 6F 75 73 |
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Morse Code (1836) (references)-. ..- - .-. .. - .. --- ..- ... |
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Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)01001110 01110101 01110100 01110010 01101001 01110100 01101001 01101111 01110101 01110011 |
HTML Code (1990) (references)N u t r i t i o u s |
ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)004E 0075 0074 0072 0069 0074 0069 006F 0075 0073 |
| British Sign Language (Fingerspelling, BSL; 1992, British Deaf Association Dictionary of British Sign Language) (references)
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Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)48878684758675818785 |
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