nutritious

1. 1.

   of or providing nourishment

   “good nourishing stew”

   Synonymsalimentaryalimentalnourishingnutrientnutritive

   Similarwholesome

Questions about nutritious

What does nutritious mean?

nutritious means "of or providing nourishment".

How many syllables are in nutritious?

nutritious has 3 syllables: nu-trit-ious. The stress falls on "trit". In IPA it is /nuˈtɹɪʃəs/.

What is another word for nutritious?

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

nutritious is banded "Familiar" — widely understood, used when the subject calls for it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.