Antonyms for nutrition
nuˈtrɪʃ ən, nyu-nu·tri·tion

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1. nutrition

   Food is, in the popular sense, whatever one eats in contradistinction to what one drinks. Thus, we speak of food and drink, of wholesome, unwholesome, or indigestible food; but in a more scientific sense whatever, when taken into the digestive organs, serves to build up structure or supply waste may be termed food; the word is extended to plants to signify whatever taken in any way into the organism serves similar purposes; thus, we speak of liquid food, plant food, etc.; in this wider sense food is closely synonymous with nutriment, nourishment, and sustenance. Diet refers to the quantity and quality of food habitually taken, with reference to preservation of health. Victuals is a plain, homely word for whatever may be eaten; we speak of choice viands, cold victuals. Nourishment and sustenance apply to whatever can be introduced into the system as a means of sustaining life; we say of a convalescent, he is taking nourishment. Nutriment and nutrition have more of scientific reference to the vitalizing principles of various foods; thus, wheat is said to contain a great amount of nutriment. Regimen considers food as taken by strict rule, but applies more widely to the whole ordering of life. Fare is a general word for all table supplies, good or bad; as, sumptuous fare; wretched fare. Feed, fodder, and provender are used only of the food of the lower animals, feed denoting anything consumed, but more commonly grain, fodder denoting hay, cornstalks, or the like, sometimes called "long feed;" provender is dry feed, whether grain or hay, straw, etc. Forage denotes any kind of food suitable for horses and cattle, primarily as obtained by a military force in scouring the country, especially an enemy's country.

   Synonyms:
   aliment, diet, fare, feed, fodder, food, forage, nourishment, nutriment, pabulum, provender, regimen, sustenance, viands, victuals

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1. nutrition

   Antonyms:
   exhaustion, starvation, inanition

   Synonyms:
   alimentation, sustentation, feeding

Matched Categories

1. • Human
   • Organic Process
   • Physiology
   • Science

Princeton's WordNetRate these antonyms:5.0 / 2 votes

1. nutritionnoun

   (physiology) the organic process of nourishing or being nourished; the processes by which an organism assimilates food and uses it for growth and maintenance

   Synonyms:
   nourishment, nutriment, aliment, sustenance, victuals, alimentation

2. nutriment, nourishment, nutrition, sustenance, aliment, alimentation, victualsnoun

   a source of materials to nourish the body

   Synonyms:
   sustentation, sustainment, victual, edible, nutriment, pabulum, keep, viands, alimentation, upkeep, victuals, bread and butter, provender, feeding, support, eatable, aliment, provisions, sustenance, commissariat, living, maintenance, nourishment, livelihood, comestible

3. nutritionnoun

   the scientific study of food and drink (especially in humans)

   Synonyms:
   nourishment, nutriment, aliment, sustenance, victuals, alimentation

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1. nutritionnoun

   Synonyms:
   nourishment, feeding, nutriment, food, eutrophy, (healthy nutrition), malnutrition, denutrition, innutrition, dystrophy (defective nutrition)

   Associated words:
   threpsology, trophology, trophic

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1. malnutrition

   Submitted by anonymous on December 18, 2019  

How to use nutrition in a sentence?

1. Alex Matthews:

   Many of the counties that have, like, really high vaccination rates also scored well on our food nutrition category. And those two things don't seem related( at first), what ends up happening is, years down the line when the public health authorities come to you and say,' Hey, we need you to wear masks' or' Hey, we need you to get this shot,' you think to yourself,' Well, of course. These people are invested in my health ; they've been investing in it every day. So I'm going to listen to them, and I'm going to trust them.'.

2. Julia Glade Bender:

   So all of those healthy lifestyle ideas that we try to teach everybody become of paramount importance to a cancer survivor, so the basics; good nutrition, exercise, don’t smoke, avoid the sun and do those screening procedures that we know are very important to adults like mammograms and pap smears.

3. Edouard Beigbeder:

   Unless health facilities have the means to deliver immunization, nutrition and other essential services, including in remote areas of the country, we risk seeing the lives and futures of many Congolese children scarred or destroyed by preventable diseases.

4. Ron Belldegrun:

   Infant formula is — appropriately — the most regulated food in the world. The road to providing babies with sole source nutrition should be met with the highest rigor, but for the benefit of babies, and their parents, there need to be more incentives for new brands to rise to the challenge. We need more support for infant formula manufacturing and product innovation at the state and federal levels.

5. Ryan Pack:

   Nutrition: Give to the body only that which is just.

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