nourishing
/'nʌriʃiɳ/
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Definition
- 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
- of or providing nourishment
- good nourishing stew