nutritive

Definitions

Providing nourishment; promoting growth or development.

Relating to or concerned with the process of nutrition.

Examples

Breast milk provides all the necessary nutritive elements for a newborn's healthy development.

The nutritionist emphasized that a balanced diet is essential for maintaining the body's nutritive requirements.

Many people are unaware of the high nutritive value found in simple, whole foods like lentils and spinach.

Synonyms

nourishing nutritious wholesome nutrimental alimentary sustaining healthful

Antonyms

unwholesome nonnutritive unhealthy harmful deleterious innutritious empty