Word Meanings - NUTRITIOUS - Book Publishers vocabulary database

Nourishing; promoting growth, or preventing decay; alimental. -- Nu*tri"tious*ly, adv. -- Nu*tri"tious*ness, n.

Possible synonyms: (Same meaning words of NUTRITIOUS)

• Wholesome
• Healthful
• salubrious
• salutary
• salutiferous
• beneficial
• nutritious
• healing

Related words: (words related to NUTRITIOUS)

• BENEFICIAL
  Receiving, or entitled to have or receive, advantage, use, or benefit; as, the beneficial owner of an estate. Kent. 3. King. "A beneficial foe." B. Jonson. Syn. -- See Advantage. (more info) 1. Conferring benefits; useful; profito. The war which
• HEALTHFULLY
  In health; wholesomely.
• HEALTHLESS
  1. Without health, whether of body or mind; in firm. "A healthless or old age." Jer. Taylor. 2. Not conducive to health; unwholesome.
• HEALTHFUL
  1. Full of health; free from illness or disease; well; whole; sound; healthy; as, a healthful body or mind; a healthful plant. 2. Serving to promote health of body or mind; wholesome; salubrious; salutary; as, a healthful air, diet. The healthful
• HEALING
  Tending to cure; soothing; mollifying; as, the healing art; a healing salve; healing words. Here healing dews and balms abound. Keble.
• HEALTHFULNESS
  The state of being healthful.
• HEALD
  A heddle. Ure.
• HEALTHSOME
  Wholesome; salubrious. "Healthsome air." Shak.
• HEALTHWARD
  In the direction of health; as, a healthward tendency.
• HEALTH
  1. The state of being hale, sound, or whole, in body, mind, or soul; especially, the state of being free from physical disease or pain. There is no health in us. Book of Common Prayer. Though health may be enjoyed without gratitude, it can not
• HEALINGLY
  So as to heal or cure.
• HEALFUL
  Tending or serving to heal; healing. Ecclus. xv. 3.
• HEALALL
  A common herb of the Mint family , destitute of active properties, but anciently thought a panacea.
• SALUBRIOUS
  Favorable to health; healthful; promoting health; as, salubrious air, water, or climate. Syn. -- Healthful; wholesome; healthy; salutary. -- Sa-lu"bri*ous*ly, adv. -- Sa*lu"bri*ous*ness, n.
• HEALTHILY
  In a healthy manner.
• BENEFICIALLY
  In a beneficial or advantageous manner; profitably; helpfully.
• SALUTIFEROUSLY
  Salutarily.
• HEAL
  To cover, as a roof, with tiles, slate, lead, or the like.
• HEALABLE
  Capable of being healed.
• HEALER
  One who, or that which, heals.
• SELF-HEAL
  A blue-flowered labiate plant ; the healall.
• INSALUTARY
  1. Not salutary or wholesome; unfavorable to health. 2. Not tending to safety; productive of evil.
• DIARRHEAL; DIARRHOEAL
  Of or pertaining to diarrhea; like diarrhea.
• LARYNGOTRACHEAL
  Pertaining to both larynx and trachea; as, the laryngotracheal cartilage in the frog.
• OXHEAL
  See BEAR'S-FOOT
• SHEAL
  See SHEELING
• SELF-HEALING
  Having the power or property of healing itself.