innutritious
Definition
Adjective: innutritious means lacking in nutritional value; not nourishing or providing essential substances for growth, health, or proper functioning.
Usage Examples
- (Lacking in beneficial nutrients.)
- (A diet that does not supply necessary nourishment.)
Advanced Usage
"innutritious food": food that fails to contribute to dietary needs.
- Many fast-food items are considered innutritious due to high levels of sugar and fat with low fiber. (Food that is not healthful.)
"innutritious soil" (figurative): soil that does not support plant growth effectively.
- The desert's innutritious ground could not sustain crops. (Soil lacking in essential minerals.)
Variants and Related Words
Innutritiousness (n): the quality of being innutritious.
- The innutritiousness of the meal was evident from its lack of vegetables. (The state of being un-nourishing.)
Innutritive (adj): a less common synonym for innutritious.
- The innutritive diet caused the animals to weaken. (Not providing nutrition.)
Synonyms
- Unwholesome: not conducive to health or well-being (often implies moral or physical harm).
- Nourishment-poor: lacking in beneficial substances.
- Non-nutritious: a direct synonym, meaning without nutritional value.
Related Idioms
Empty calories: a phrase describing foods that provide energy but little to no nutritional value (often used to describe innutritious items).
- Soda and candy are full of empty calories, making them innutritious choices. (Calories without nutrients.)
Junk food: a colloquial term for innutritious, highly processed foods.
- He survived on innutritious junk food during college. (Unhealthy, low-nutrient snacks.)