nourish

Other forms of nourish

past tense

nourished·

present participle

nourishing·

third person

nourishes·

Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.

Questions about nourish

What does nourish mean?

nourish means "provide with nourishment". That is the primary sense; the word has 2 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in nourish?

nourish has 2 syllables: nou-rish. The stress falls on "nou". In IPA it is /ˈnɝɪʃ/.

What is another word for nourish?

Close synonyms include nurture, sustain, nutrify, aliment. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is nourish a common word?

nourish is banded "Uncommon" — turns up in careful writing rather than conversation. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.

What rhymes with nourish?

2 words rhyme with nourish. Rhymes are matched on the phonemes from the last stressed vowel onward, which is the definition a reader has in their head.