nutrient

1. 1.

   of or providing nourishment

   “good nourishing stew”

   Synonymsalimentaryalimentalnourishingnutritiousnutritive

   Similarwholesome

Other forms of nutrient

plural

nutrients·

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 nutrient

What does nutrient mean?

nutrient means "any substance that can be metabolized by an animal to give energy and build tissue". That is the primary sense; the word has 3 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in nutrient?

nutrient has 3 syllables: nu-tri-ent. The stress falls on "nu". In IPA it is /ˈnutɹiənt/.

What is another word for nutrient?

Close synonyms include food, alimentary, alimental, nourishing, nutritious. 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 nutrient a common word?

nutrient 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.