nurturant

1. 1.

   providing physical and emotional care and nourishment

   Similarcompassionate

Questions about nurturant

What does nurturant mean?

nurturant means "providing physical and emotional care and nourishment".

How many syllables are in nurturant?

nurturant has 3 syllables and divides as nur-tu-rant under the regular spelling rules. It is not in the CMU Pronouncing Dictionary, so that comes from how the word is written rather than from a recorded pronunciation, and no stress or phonetic transcription is claimed for it.

Is nurturant a common word?

nurturant 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.