Word Pronunciation & Dictionary

nutritious

/nuːˈtɹɪʃəs/

Word Rarity Rare

Frequency: Zipf frequency 3.18 in modern English

Syllables: nu-tri-tious
IPA: /nuːˈtɹɪʃəs/

10

Scrabble Score

10

Letters

3

Syllables

7

Unique Chars

Meaning

adj

Providing nutrients; healthy to eat or drink.

adj

Example Sentences

"A cumbrous, circuitous, and often a sophisticative mode of commenting upon the Prophets, and of darkening their meaning, had taken the place of what might have been a nutritious popular instruction."

Etymology

Learned borrowing from Latin nūtrītius, from nūtrītus, from nūtrīre.

Word Breakdown

Root: *(s)neh₂-

Regional Pronunciation

American English: /nuːˈtɹɪʃəs/
British English: /njuːˈtɹɪʃəs/

Inflected Forms

more nutritious (comparative) most nutritious (superlative)

Derived Forms

antinutritious innutritious nonnutritious nutritiously nutritiousness supernutritious undernutritious unnutritious

Frequently Paired Words

nutrient nutrition nutritional

Synonyms

nourishing nutritive alimentary alimental nutrient

Rhymes With

delicious suspicious ambitious vicious malicious fictitious superstitious auspicious pernicious capricious judicious seditious

Questions

How do you pronounce nutritious?: The recorded pronunciation is /nuːˈtɹɪʃəs/.
What does nutritious mean?: Providing nutrients; healthy to eat or drink.
Where does nutritious come from?: Learned borrowing from Latin nūtrītius, from nūtrītus, from nūtrīre.

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