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| Main Entry: |
nutritious
 [noo-trish-uhs, nyoo-] 
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| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | healthy |
| Synonyms: | alimental, alimentative, balanced, beneficial, good, health-giving, healthful, invigorating, nourishing, nutrient, nutrimental, nutritive, salubrious, salutary, strengthening, wholesome |
| Antonyms: | bad, insubstantial, unhealthful, unhealthy, unwholesome |
| Main Entry: | eatable |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | able to be consumed |
| Synonyms: | appetizing, comestible, culinary, delicious, delish, dietary, digestible, edible, esculent, fit, good, harmless, kosher*, nutritious, nutritive, palatable, piquant, safe, satisfying, savory, scrumptious, succulent, tasty, tempting, wholesome, yummy* |
| Antonyms: | inedible, undelicious, uneatable, unpalatable, unwholesome |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | edible |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | able to be eaten |
| Synonyms: | comestible, digestible, eatable, esculent, fit, good, harmless, nourishing, nutritious, nutritive, palatable, savory, succulent, tasty, toothsome, wholesome |
| Antonyms: | harmful, inedible, poisonous, unpalatable |
Example Sentences
- But, there comes a time in every chytrid's life when it's time to shove off for wetter, more nutritious pastures.
- Seafood stew gets a boost from quick, nutritious quinoa.
- Apples baked or cut up and simmered with raisins are a nutritious and delicious family favorite.
| Main Entry: | healthful/healthy |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | good for one's wellness |
| Synonyms: | advantageous, aiding, aseptic, beneficial, benign, body-building, bracing, cathartic, clean, compensatory, conducive, corrective, desirable, disease-free, energy-giving, fresh, harmless, healing, health-giving, helpful, hygienic, innocuous, invigorating, mitigative, nourishing, nutritious, nutritive, profitable, pure, restorative, salubrious, salutary, sanatory, sanitary, stimulating, sustaining, tonic, unadulterated, unpolluted, untainted, useful, wholesome |
| Antonyms: | bad, corrupt, diseased, noxious, rotten, sickening, unhealthful, unhealthy |
| Main Entry: | nourishing |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | healthful |
| Synonyms: | alimentative, beneficial, health-giving, healthy, nutrient, nutrimental, nutritious, nutritive, wholesome |
| Antonyms: | bad, unhealthy, unwholesome |
| Main Entry: | rich |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | flavorful |
| Synonyms: | creamy, delicious, fatty, full-bodied, heavy, highly flavored, juicy, luscious, nourishing, nutritious, oily, satisfying, savory, spicy, succulent, sustaining, sweet, tasty |
| Antonyms: | bland, tasteless |
| Main Entry: | salutary |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | healthy |
| Synonyms: | aiding, beneficial, fit, good, healing, healthful, nourishing, nutritious, restorative, salubrious, sound, tonic, well, wholesome |
| Main Entry: | wholesome |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | healthy, decent |
| Synonyms: | all there, beneficial, clean, edifying, ethical, exemplary, fit, good, hale, health-giving, healthful, helpful, honorable, hygienic, in fine feather, in the pink, innocent, invigorating, moral, nice, normal, nourishing, nutritious, nutritive, pure, respectable, restorative, right, righteous, safe, salubrious, salutary, sane, sanitary, sound, strengthening, together, virtuous, well, worthy |
| Antonyms: | bad, impure, indecent, unhealthy, unwholesome |
| Main Entry: | nutritive |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | pertaining to food |
| Synonyms: | alimental, alimentary, alimentative, balanced, beneficial, good, health-giving, healthful, invigorating, nourishing, nutrient, nutrimental, nutritional, nutritious, salubrious, salutary, strengthening, wholesome |
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