nutriment

Other forms of nutriment

plural

nutriments·

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 nutriment

What does nutriment mean?

nutriment means "a source of materials to nourish the body".

How many syllables are in nutriment?

nutriment has 3 syllables: nu-tri-ment. The stress falls on "nu".

What is another word for nutriment?

Close synonyms include nourishment, nutrition, sustenance, aliment, alimentation. 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 nutriment a common word?

nutriment is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.