nutritious

Meanings

1. 1
   adj

   Salutary.

   A cumbrous, circuitous, and often a sophisticative mode of commenting upon the Prophets, and of darkening their meaning, had taken the place of what might have been a nutritious popular instruction.

2. 2
   adj

   of or providing nourishment

3. 3
   adj

   Providing nutrients; healthy to eat or drink.

Etymology

Learned borrowing from Latin nūtrītius, from nūtrītus, from nūtrīre.