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Definition: Nutritive |
NutritiveAdjective1. Providing nourishment; "good nourishing food". Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
Date "nutritive" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1588. (references) |
Etymology: Nutritive \Nu"tri*tive\, adjective. [Compare to the French expression nutritif.]. (references) |
Synonyms: NutritiveSynonyms: alimentary (adj), nourishing (adj), nutrient (adj), nutritious (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; |
| Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus. | |
Crosswords: Nutritive |
| English words defined with "nutritive": albumen, Alible, arrowroot, autophytic, autotrophic ♦ Barley water ♦ egg, egg white, endosperm, Eupepsy, Eutrophy, Evolutility ♦ Growth by apposition ♦ Hydranth, Hydrosoma, Hygroplasm ♦ Idioplasma, insubstantial ♦ jejune, jejuneness, jejunity ♦ Meroblast, milk ♦ ovalbumin ♦ poor, Porpita ♦ Setaria italica ♦ Trophosome ♦ umbilical vesicle ♦ Vitelligenous, vitellus ♦ yolk. (references) |
| Specialty definitions using "nutritive": Caseins, CHEMIST, FOOD ♦ Eutrophication ♦ JESSENIA POLYCARPA, JUNGIA FERRUGINEA, JUNGIA MOSCHATA, JUNIGA ACEROIDES ♦ nem. (references) |
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| "Nutritive food" by Grenville Tryon Commentary: "The obligatory january diet." |
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Business | Consumption of nutritive carbohydrate products in Poland is 120 kg per capita, one of the highest in Europe. (references) | |
In an effort to avoid future problems, the Korean government requires that drafts of health food advertisements and labels are first cleared by the Korea Health and Special Nutritive Food Association. (references) | ||
Trade | Moldova | The following information is required on food items imported and sold in Moldova: product name, name and contact information for the producer, packaging company, exporter and/or importer; country of manufacture, brand name (if applicable); net weight, volume or quantity, list of ingredients, nutritive value, storage instructions, validity period, date of production, information regarding product certification, information on special product treatment methods (if applicable), bar code (if assigned), other information. (references) |
Source: compiled by the editor from ICON Group International, Inc.; see credits. | ||
| "Nutritive" is generally used as an adjective (general or positive) -- approximately 94.74% of the time. "Nutritive" is used about 19 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) | 94.74% | 18 | 82,615 |
| Noun (proper) | 5.26% | 1 | 339,140 |
| Total | 100.00% | 19 | N/A |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
Expressions using "nutritive": nutritive plasma ♦ nutritive polyp ♦ nutritive ratio ♦ nutritive tract ♦ nutritive value. Additional references. | |
| Hypenated Usage | |
Ending with "nutritive": non-nutritive. | |
| 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 |
nutritive value of food | 8 |
kerastase nutritive | 4 |
nutritive snacks | 4 |
nutritive | 3 |
corn forage nutritive value | 2 |
nutritive valeur | 2 |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| Language | Translations for "nutritive"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | |
Albanian | ushqimor (edible, pabulary), me vlera ushqyese, i ushqyeshëm (nourishing, nutrient, rich), i të ushqyerit. (various references) | |
Arabic | مغذ (alimentary, nourishing, nutrient, nutritious, sustaining), متعلق بالتغذية, غذوي. (various references) | |
Bulgarian | хранително вещество, хранителен (alimentary, comestible, food, nourishing, nutrient, nutritious, rich), отнасящ се до храна, питателен (alimentary, nourishing, nutrient, satisfying, substantial). (various references) | |
Chinese | 营养 (Alimentation, Nutrition, Nutritional). (various references) | |
Czech | vyživovací, výživný (nourishing, nutrient, nutritious, pabulary, substantial), potravina (foodstuff). (various references) | |
Danish | næringsstof (nutrient, nutritive substance, plant food, plant food element), næring (food, nourishment), næringssalt til bladudvikling (nutritive salt for leaf development), næringsstofforhold (nutrient ratio, nutritive ratio), næringsværdien af forsoegsgruppens foder (nutritive value of control diet), naeringssalt (nutritive salt), nutritiv hypoxi (nutritive hypoxia), næringssalt for blomsterdannelse (nutritive salt for flourisher, nutritive salt for flower formation), særlig ernæringsværdi (specific nutritive value), slutgødningsmiddel (nutritive salt for finishing), vitellus nutritivus (nutritive yolk), startgødningsmiddel (nutritive salt for early growth, nutritive salt for starter), Bircher-Benner's diæt (Bircher=Benner diet, Bircher=Benner nutritive food), starttilskud (nutritive salt for early growth, nutritive salt for starter), market naeringsstof (tagged nutritive substance), foderenhed (feed unit, fodder unit, nutrient ratio, nutritive ratio), ernaeringssukker (malt sugar, nutritive sugar), ernaeringsblomme (nutritive yolk), COMAC-Virkningen af behandlinger og distribution paa levnedsmidlers kvalitet og naeringsvaerdi (COMAC-Effects of Processing and Distribution on the Quality and Nutritive Value of Food), CCCC-Virkningen af behandlinger og distribution paa levnedsmidlers kvalitet og naeringsvaerdi (CCCC-Effect of Processing and Distribution on the Quality and Nutritive Value of Food). (various references) | |
Dutch | nutritionele verhouding (nutrient ratio, nutritive ratio), voedingsdooier (nutritive yolk), COMAC-Effect van behandeling en distributie op de kwaliteit en voedingswaarde van levensmiddelen (COMAC-Effects of Processing and Distribution on the Quality and Nutritive Value of Food), deutoplasma (nutritive yolk), dieet van Bircher-Benner (Bircher=Benner diet, Bircher=Benner nutritive food), finisher (nutritive salt for finishing), florisher (nutritive salt for flourisher, nutritive salt for flower formation), gemerkte voedingsstof (tagged nutritive substance), specifieke voedingskwaliteit (specific nutritive value), CCCC-Effect van behandeling en distributie op de kwaliteit en voedingswaarde van levensmiddelen (CCCC-Effect of Processing and Distribution on the Quality and Nutritive Value of Food), vitellus nutritivus (nutritive yolk), voedingszout voor jeugdgroei (nutritive salt for early growth, nutritive salt for starter), voedingsstof (nutrient, nutritive substance, plant food, plant food element), voedingsstoffenverhouding (nutrient ratio, nutritive ratio), voedingssubstraat (nutritive substratum), voedingswaarde (nutritional value, nutritive value), voedingswaarde van het voedsel in de controlegroep (nutritive value of control diet), voedingszout (nutritive salt), voedingszout als laatste bemesting (nutritive salt for finishing), voedingszout voor bladontwikkeling (nutritive salt for leaf development), voedingszout voor bloemvorming (nutritive salt for flourisher, nutritive salt for flower formation), starter (starter). (various references) | |
Farsi | مغذی (Nutrient, Nutritious). (various references) | |
Finnish | ravintoaine (nutrient, nutritive substance). (various references) | |
French | nutritif (nutrient, nutriment, nutrimental, nutritious). (various references) | |
German | nahrhaften. (various references) | |
Greek | τροφικόσ, θρεπτικόσ (alimentary, nourishing, nutrient, nutritional, nutritious). (various references) | |
Hebrew | מזין (alimentary, feeder, nutrient, nutritious, sustaining), מזוני, תזונתי (nutritious). (various references) | |
Hungarian | tápláló (afferent, alimentary, feeder, feeding, hearty, nourishing, nurturer, nutrient, nutritious, rich, substantial, sustaining, wholesome). (various references) | |
Indonesian | nilai gizi (nutritive value). (various references) | |
Italian | nutritivo (nourishing, nutrimental, nutritious), nutriente (feeding, nourishing, nutrient, nutritious). (various references) | |
Japanese Kanji | 栄養塩類 (nutritive salts). (various references) | |
Japanese Katakana | えいようえんるい (nutritive salts). (various references) | |
Korean | 영양 (Addax, Nutritional, trophic). (various references) | |
Manx | meansalagh, beeoil (alimental). (various references) | |
Pig Latin | utritivenay.(various references) | |
Portuguese | nutritivo (nourishing, nutrient, nutritious), substância nutritiva (nutrient, nutritive substance), alimentar (aliment, diet, fare, feed, food, forage, foster, nourish, nurture). (various references) | |
Romanian | nutritiv (alimental, food, nourishing, numinous, nutritious, wholesome), hrãnitor (alimental, nourishing, numinous, nutritious, wholesome), alimentar (alimentary, edacious, food). (various references) | |
Russian | питающий (nutrient, trophic), питательный (nourishing, nutrient, nutritious, trophic), доставляющий пищу (nutrient). (various references) | |
Serbo-Croatian | hranljiv (nourishing, nutrient, nutritional, nutritious, restorative). (various references) | |
Spanish | nutrtivo, nutritivo (nourishing, nutrient, nutritious, nutritiously, sustaining). (various references) | |
Swedish | närande (alimentary, hearty, nourishing). (various references) | |
Thai | ซึ่งบำรุงสุขภาพ (nutritious). (various references) | |
Turkish | sindirim (assimilation, digestion, digestive), besleyici (alimentary, feeder, nourishing, nutrient, nutritious, rich, substantial, sustaining, trophic), beslenme (alimentary, alimentation, nourishment, nutrition). (various references) | |
Ukrainian | їжа (aliment, bait, board, chow, chuck, eating, fare, feed, feeding, fodder, food, meat, nosh, nourishment, nurture, nutriment, nutrition, pabulum, potluck, thing, Tommy, viand, victual), харчовий продукт (foodstuff), харчовий (alimentary, esculent, nutritional, pabulary), харч (chow, nosh, nourishment, nouriture, nutriment, provender), поживний (alimentary, battle, nourishing, nutrient, nutritional, nutritious, substantial). (various references) | |
Vietnamese | chất dinh dưỡng (nutrient, nutriment), bổ; có chất bổ; dinh dưỡng dùng làm thức ăn, đồ ăn có chất b. (various references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references. | ||
Derivations | |
Words beginning with "nutritive": nutritively. (additional references) | |
Words ending with "nutritive": nonnutritive. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
| # of Phoneme Matches | Pronunciation | Word(s) rhyming with "nutritive" (pronounced nuw"trutiv) |
| 6 | -t r u t i v | demonstrative, illustrative. |
| 5 | -r u t i v | commemorative, comparative, curative, decorative, imperative, interpretive, lucrative, narrative, pejorative, restorative, secretive. |
| 4 | -u t i v | accusative, acquisitive, additive, affirmative, alliterative, alternative, anticompetitive, argumentative, causative, cognitive, communicative, competitive, consecutive, conservative, consultative, contemplative, cumulative, definitive, degenerative, derivative, diminutive, dispositive, duplicative, evocative, executive, expletive, exploitative, Federative, figurative, fixative, formative, fugitive, generative, hypersensitive, imaginative, indicative, infinitive, informative, initiative, inoperative, inquisitive, insensitive, intuitive, laxative, negative, neoconservative, noncompetitive, noncumulative, nonexecutive, normative, operative, palliative, participative, positive, prerogative, preservative, preventative, primitive, prohibitive, provocative, punitive, putative, recuperative, relative, remunerative, rep, repetitive, representative, sedative, sensitive, speculative, superlative, talkative, tentative, ultraconservative, uncompetitive, uncooperative, unimaginative, uninformative, unrepresentative, vituperative. |
| 3 | -t i v | accommodative, abortive, accumulative, active, adaptive, addictive, adjective, administrative, adoptive, affective, appointive, appreciative, assaultive, assertive, attentive, attractive, authoritative, automotive, captive, collaborative, collective, combative, conductive, congestive, connective, constructive, contraceptive, cooperative, corrective, corruptive, counterproductive, creative, deceptive, defective, deliberative, descriptive, destructive, detective, digestive, dilutive, directive, disincentive, disparages, disruptive, dissipative, distinctive, distributive, effective, elective, elucidative, eruptive, exhaustive, exploitive, facultative, festive, furtive, hyperactive, imitative, inactive, inattentive, incentive, ineffective, infective, injunctive, innovative, instinctive, instructive, interactive, introspective, invective, inventive, investigative, irrespective, iterative, legislative, locomotive, manipulative, meditative, motive, native, nonautomotive, nonnative, nonproductive, objective, obstructive, octave, overactive, perceptive, perspective, photoconductive, plaintive, predictive, preemptive, presumptive, preventive, proactive, probative, productive, prognosticative, projective, prospective, protective, qualitative, quantitative, radioactive, reactive, receptive, reconstructive, redemptive, redistributive, reflective, refractive, regulative, rehabilitative, reproductive, respective, restive, restrictive, retroactive, retrospective, seductive, selective, stimulative, subjective, substantive, suggestive, superconductive, supportive, unattractive, unproductive, unreceptive, vegetative, vindictive. |
Source: compiled by the editor (additional references); see credits. | ||
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "e-i-i-n-r-t-t-u-v" | |
-2 letters: inviter, nitrite, nittier, nuttier, unitive, venturi, vitrine. | |
-3 letters: intuit, invert, invite, nutter, retint, tenuti, tinier, tinter, triune, trivet, uniter, vinier, virtue. | |
-4 letters: inert, inter, inure, niter, nitre, riven, rivet, rutin, titer, titre, trine, trite, tuner, unite, untie, urine, uteri, utter, vertu, virtu. | |
-5 letters: etui, inti, nett, nevi, nite, rein, rent, rite, rive, ruin, rune. | |
| Words containing the letters "e-i-i-n-r-t-t-u-v" | |
+2 letters: instructive, investiture, nutritively. | |
+3 letters: contributive, interruptive, investitures, nonnutritive, vituperating, vituperation. | |
+4 letters: adventuristic, instructively, overnutrition, recultivating, revolutionist, underactivity, uninstructive, ventriloquist, vituperations. | |
+5 letters: antiuniversity, contributively, overnutritions, revolutionists, ultrasensitive, ventriloquists. | |
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