Nutritive

Pronunciation

• UK IPA: /ˈnjuːtɹətɪv/

Origin

From Middle French nutritif, from Late Latin nūtritīvus, from the participle stem of Latin nūtriō ("I suckle").

Full definition of nutritive

Adjective

1. of or pertaining to nutrition
2. nourishing, nutritional
• 2002, Colin Jones, The Great Nation, Penguin 2003, p. 355:D'Argenson reckoned that its consumption held up so well in times of high prices because the poor thought that it had nutritive value.

Antonyms

• nonnutritive

Derived terms

• antinutritive
• innutritive
• nutritively