Word Pronunciation & Dictionary

nutritive

/ˈnjuːtɹətɪv/

Word Rarity Very rare

Frequency: Zipf frequency 2.29 in modern English

Syllables: nu-tri-tive
IPA: /ˈnjuːtɹətɪv/

12

Scrabble Score

9

Letters

3

Syllables

7

Unique Chars

Meaning

adj

Of or pertaining to nutrition.

adj

Nourishing, providing nutrition.

noun

Archaic

Example Sentences

"The juice of the ripe grape is a nutritive and agreeable food, consisting chiefly of sugar and mucilage."
"The percentage of nutritive elements contained in the parsnip is very small; so small, indeed, that one pound of parsnips affords hardly one fifth of an ounce of nitrogenous or muscle-forming material."
"D'Argenson reckoned that its consumption held up so well in times of high prices because the poor thought that it had nutritive value."

Etymology

From Middle French nutritif, from Late Latin nūtritīvus, from the participle stem of Latin nūtriō (“to suckle”).

Regional Pronunciation

British English: /ˈnjuːtɹətɪv/

Usage

Archaic

Inflected Forms

more nutritive (comparative) most nutritive (superlative) nutritives (plural)

Derived Forms

antinutritive innutritive isonutritive nutritively nutritiveness unnutritive

Synonyms

nutritional alimentary alimental nourishing nutrient nutritious

Antonyms

nonnutritive

Questions

How do you pronounce nutritive?: The recorded pronunciation is /ˈnjuːtɹətɪv/.
What does nutritive mean?: Of or pertaining to nutrition.
Where does nutritive come from?: From Middle French nutritif, from Late Latin nūtritīvus, from the participle stem of Latin nūtriō (“to suckle”).

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