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nourishing

adjectiveB2+Occasional — familiar, but not everyday · #11,062 of 15,258neutral

Nourishing means giving the body what it needs to thrive. A nourishing meal, nourishing soup, nourishing and warm.

It is warmer than nutritious and vaguer, which is exactly why food writing prefers it — nourishing suggests comfort as well as nutrients. Figuratively, a nourishing friendship or conversation feeds something other than the body. Note nourish, from the Latin for suckling.

Definitions of nourishing

  1. 1adjectivenourishingGiving the body what it needs to thrive.B2+

    “After a long illness, she needed simple, nourishing food like soup and eggs.”

nourishing is a quality of feeding.

Where it comes from

  1. Proto-Indo-European

    *(s)neh₂-

  2. Latin

    nutriō — to suckle, feed, foster, nourish, cherish, preserve, support

  3. Old French

    nouriss-

  4. Middle English

    norischen

  5. English

    nourish

  6. English, today

    nourishing

nourish comes from Middle English norischen, from Old French nouriss-, stem of one of the conjugated forms of norrir, from Latin nutriō (“to suckle, feed, foster, nourish, cherish, preserve, support”).

Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA

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nourishing in the wild

  • Mother church or matrice is a term depicting the Christian Church as a mother in her functions of nourishing and protecting the believer.

    Mother church

  • Yamal is in northern Russia with frigid winters, so its cuisine should be nourishing to give the people energy to survive during the long winter time.

    Yamal cuisine

From Wikipedia, CC BY-SA 4.0. These sentences were written by other people about their own subjects; they are here to show the word at work, not as anybody’s opinion.

Related words

the nutriō family

nurse

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