nutritious B1 Topic:Describing Qualities US /nuːˈtɹɪʃəs/ UK /njuːˈtɹɪʃəs/ See IPA manual Freq #20352 Meanings 1 adj Full of the substances that the body needs to stay healthy. A bowl of oatmeal makes a nutritious breakfast. Thesaurus Synonyms 1 adj · full of the substances that... nourishingnutritivealimental Word family Forms innutritious Derived forms antinutritiousinnutritiousnonnutritiousnutritiouslynutritiousnesssupernutritiousundernutritiousunnutritious Related forms nutrientnutritionnutritional Etymology AI details Learned borrowing from Latin nūtrītius, from nūtrītus, from nūtrīre. *(s)neh₂- Proto-Indo-European nūtrītius Latin View etymology graph -> Topics Describing Qualities External links Google Images Cambridge Dictionary Wiktionary # nutritious **Type:** Word **Level:** B1 **Part of speech:** adj **IPA (US):** /nuːˈtɹɪʃəs/ **IPA (UK):** /njuːˈtɹɪʃəs/ **Frequency rank:** 20352 ## Meanings 1. Full of the substances that the body needs to stay healthy. ## Examples - A bowl of oatmeal makes a nutritious breakfast. ## Derived Forms - antinutritious - innutritious - nonnutritious - nutritiously - nutritiousness - supernutritious - undernutritious - unnutritious ## Related Forms - nutrient - nutrition - nutritional ## Roots and Affixes - Root: *(s)neh₂- - Root: nūtrītius ## Etymology Learned borrowing from Latin nūtrītius, from nūtrītus, from nūtrīre. ## AI Etymology Nutritious is a learned borrowing from Latin nūtrītius, from nūtrītus, from nūtrīre. The historical chain includes Proto-Indo-European *(s)neh₂- and Latin nūtrītius. Modern senses include full of the substances that the body needs to stay healthy. The wider word family includes derivatives such as antinutritious, innutritious, nonnutritious, nutritiously, nutritiousness, and supernutritious and related forms such as nutrient, nutrition, and nutritional. ## Topics - Describing Qualities markdown