nourishing

[ nur-i-shing, nuhr- ]

adjective

1. promoting or sustaining life, growth, or strength:

   a nourishing diet.

Other Words From

• nourish·ing·ly adverb
• non·nourish·ing adjective
• over·nourish·ing·ly adverb
• self-nourish·ing adjective
• un·nourish·ing adjective

Word History and Origins

Origin of nourishing¹

1350–1400; Middle English (gerund); nourish, -ing ²

Example Sentences

In effect, then, the resort is harnessing the power of the sun to turn seawater into a nourishing resource—for people and plants.

From The Daily Beast

Yet the dread has an oddly nourishing quality; this dread invigorates.

From The Daily Beast

Everybody knows it, that feeling of entering a park: peeling off the city streets and into that nourishing sense of calm.

From The Daily Beast

Plus, what about the mammalian issues standing up so long might create: the need to eat and drink a nourishing balanced diet?

From The Daily Beast

Turns out, nourishing your body with real food actually makes you feel better.

From The Daily Beast

Meanwhile Fleurette had her nourishing food, and grew more like the ghost of a lily every day.

From Project Gutenberg

Light and nourishing dishes are prepared for my dinner; a hot-water bottle is placed in my bed; and in the bedroom a fire is lit.

From Project Gutenberg

It attains a prodigious size in those countries where the pasture is rich and nourishing.

From Project Gutenberg

Not only that, but, as they soon discovered, these dishes were fully as invigorating and nourishing as a meat diet.

From Project Gutenberg

Here were good beds, nourishing food, delicacies from the stores of the Christian and Sanitary Commissions, and kind attention.

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Related Words

• wholesome