Definition

1. Adjective:
   • Providing nourishment; nutritious: Describes food or substances that are beneficial to health and growth by supplying essential nutrients.
   • Promoting growth or development: Can describe something that sustains or enriches in a non-physical sense, such as an environment or experience.

Usage and Examples

• Adjective:
  • The soup is simple but very nourishing. (The soup is basic but provides excellent nutrition.)
  • She believes a nourishing breakfast is the best way to start the day. (She believes a nutritious breakfast is the optimal way to begin the day.)
  • The book provided a nourishing experience for her mind. (The book offered an enriching experience for her intellect.)

Advanced Usage

• "to be nourishing to": to be beneficial for the growth or health of something.
  • Sunlight and water are nourishing to plants. (Sunlight and water are beneficial for plant growth.)
• Used to describe environments or relationships that support well-being.
  • They created a nourishing home environment for their children. (They established a home environment that supported their children's development.)

Variants and Related Words

• Nourish (verb): To provide with food or other substances necessary for growth, health, and good condition.
  • A mother's milk nourishes the baby.
• Nourishment (noun): The food or other substances necessary for growth, health, and good condition.
  • The soil lacks the necessary nourishment for crops.
• Well-nourished (adjective): Having received adequate nourishment.
  • The well-nourished seedlings grew quickly.

Synonyms

• Nutritious: Efficient as food; nourishing.
• Nutritive: Of or providing nourishment.
• Wholesome: Conducive to or suggestive of good health and physical well-being.
• Sustaining: Providing strength or support.

Antonyms

• Unwholesome: Detrimental to physical or moral well-being.
• Innutritious: Lacking nutritional value.
• Unhealthy: Harmful to health.

Adjective

1. of or providing nourishment
   • good nourishing stew