nutritious

Learned borrowing from Latin nūtrīcius.

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /njuːˈtɹɪʃəs/
• (US) IPA^(key): /nuːˈtɹɪʃəs/
• Rhymes: -ɪʃəs

nutritious (comparative more nutritious, superlative most nutritious)

1. (of food or drink) Providing nutrients; healthy to eat.

   Synonyms: nourishing, nutritive

2. (figurative) Salutary.
   • 1861, Isaac Taylor, The Spirit of the Hebrew Poetry, page 247:

     A cumbrous, circuitous, and often a sophisticative mode of commenting upon the Prophets, and of darkening their meaning, had taken the place of what might have been a nutritious popular instruction.