Antonyms for nurture
ˈnɜr tʃərnur·ture

English Synonyms and AntonymsRate these synonyms:4.0 / 2 votes

1. nurture

   To cherish is both to hold dear and to treat as dear. Mere unexpressed esteem would not be cherishing. In the marriage vow, "to love, honor, and cherish," the word cherish implies all that each can do by love and tenderness for the welfare and happiness of the other, as by support, protection, care in sickness, comfort in sorrow, sympathy, and help of every kind. To nurse is to tend the helpless or feeble, as infants, or the sick or wounded. To nourish is strictly to sustain and build up by food; to nurture includes careful mental and spiritual training, with something of love and tenderness; to foster is simply to maintain and care for, to bring up; a foster-child will be nourished, but may not be as tenderly nurtured or as lovingly cherished as if one's own. In the figurative sense, the opinion one cherishes he holds, not with mere cold conviction, but with loving devotion.

   See synonyms for ABANDON; CHASTEN.

   Synonyms:
   cheer, cherish, cling to, comfort, encourage, entertain, foster, harbor, hold dear, nourish, nurse, protect, shelter, treasure, value

Matched Categories

1. • Encourage
   • Supply
   • Upbringing

Princeton's WordNetRate these antonyms:5.0 / 1 vote

1. raising, rearing, nurturenoun

   the properties acquired as a consequence of the way you were treated as a child

   Synonyms:
   raising, fostering, lift, rearing, breeding, bringing up, upbringing, fosterage, elevation

2. breeding, bringing up, fostering, fosterage, nurture, raising, rearing, upbringingverb

   helping someone grow up to be an accepted member of the community

   "they debated whether nature or nurture was more important"

   Synonyms:
   rearing, education, breeding, fostering, facts of life, gentility, upbringing, training, bringing up, elevation, procreation, lift, raising, fosterage, reproduction, genteelness

3. foster, nurtureverb

   help develop, help grow

   "nurture his talents"

   Synonyms:
   bring up, rear, sustain, foster, raise, nourish, parent, further

4. rear, raise, bring up, nurture, parentverb

   bring up

   "raise a family"; "bring up children"

   Synonyms:
   kindle, rise, arouse, put forward, leaven, set up, upgrade, boot, provoke, elevate, kick upstairs, recruit, upraise, enkindle, put up, heighten, stir, refer, elicit, advance, conjure, lift, fire, farm, cite, grow, bring up, conjure up, resurrect, levy, advert, promote, nourish, prove, erect, raise, name, call down, get up, produce, call forth, invoke, mention, reboot, evoke, rear, foster, parent, sustain, rise up, enhance

5. nourish, nurture, sustainverb

   provide with nourishment

   "We sustained ourselves on bread and water"; "This kind of food is not nourishing for young children"

   Synonyms:
   have, suffer, keep up, keep, support, hold up, hold, sustain, bring up, confirm, foster, nutrify, rear, aliment, get, corroborate, maintain, nourish, substantiate, affirm, raise, prolong, parent

Synonyms, Antonyms & Associated WordsRate these synonyms:0.0 / 0 votes

1. nurturenoun

   Synonyms:
   care, training, food, nourishment

2. nurtureverb

   Synonyms:
   feed, nourish, nurse, educate, train, school

Editors ContributionRate these antonyms:0.0 / 0 votes

1. discourage, forbid, frustrate, hamper, hinder, interdict

   Submitted by @Muskan on December 28, 2020  

How to use nurture in a sentence?

1. Cesar Rubio:

   I try to nurture that, i feel that I'm contributing, even if it's only like a small part. Especially scientific research, it's satisfying for me.

2. Michael Collins:

   Strangely enough, it looks fragile somehow, you want to take care of it. You want to nurture it. You want to be good to it. All the beauty, it was wonderful, it was tiny, it's our home, everything I knew, but fragile, strange.

3. Brian Deschanel:

   A parentless child, is an orphan growing wildlife without nurture, guidance, and insecured like a rootless dying flower in vase.

4. Debasish Mridha, M.D.:

   Happiness will bloom with fragrance and beauty if you plant the seeds of love with a deep driving desire in the garden of hope and nurture with tenderness, compassion, and care; if you are always eager to share.

5. Jay Olson:

   Our results suggest that age, gender and location are not limiting factors : Almost anyone can be creative, having more methods to measure creativity means that we can better assess the success of various different methods to promote and nurture creativity.

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