Word Pronunciation & Dictionary

nurturant

/ˈnəːtʃəɹənt/

Word Rarity Very rare

Frequency: Zipf frequency 1.02 in modern English

Syllables: nur-tu-rant
IPA: /ˈnəːtʃəɹənt/

9

Scrabble Score

9

Letters

3

Syllables

5

Unique Chars

Meaning

adj

That provides nourishment; nurturing.

noun

That which nurtures; a nurturing factor or influence.

Example Sentences

"Go to readings, read books like this anthology, read the publications, become nurturant and enriched and educated about what's going on around them, form writing support groups."
"In other words, liberalism defines government as tyrant father but demands it behave as nurturant mother."
"By removing one or another aspect from an organism's visual environment, one can determine the essential visual nurturants. The latter are then considered the basic visual-environmental determinants of the development of visual perception."

Etymology

Etymology tree English nurture Latin -ns Latin -āns Old French -antbor. Proto-Indo-European *-onts Proto-Germanic *-ndz Proto-West Germanic *-andī Old English -ende Middle English -ant English -ant English nurturant From nurture + -ant.

Regional Pronunciation

British English: /ˈnəːtʃəɹənt/

Inflected Forms

more nurturant (comparative) most nurturant (superlative) nurturants (plural)

Frequently Paired Words

nurturance

Questions

How do you pronounce nurturant?: The recorded pronunciation is /ˈnəːtʃəɹənt/.
What does nurturant mean?: That provides nourishment; nurturing.
Where does nurturant come from?: Etymology tree English nurture Latin -ns Latin -āns Old French -antbor. Proto-Indo-European *-onts Proto-Germanic *-ndz Proto-West Germanic *-andī Old English -ende Middle English -ant English -ant English nurturant From nurture + -ant.

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