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. Kelly Ayotte:

   I am confident that local school districts in New Hampshire have the ability to both responsibly manage taxpayer dollars and implement proper nutrition guidelines for their students.

2. Sonny Perdue:

   If kids aren’t eating the food, and it’s ending up in the trash, they aren’t getting any nutrition — thus undermining the intent of the program.

3. Vijaya Raghavan:

   If we analyze anemia to be a triggering condition for perinatal depression and try to talk to the health department about the problems, they will say it is a nutrition problem and lead us to them. The nutrition department will say they have provided all nutritional sustenance and perhaps it is not reaching the women due to lack of education and lead us to the education department and that just goes on.

4. Maya Cooper:

   We've have the suggestion that people should just have a liquid, they should take a pill to consume all the vitamins and minerals that they need, the issue with that is that there's a psychological experience that comes with eating. And people don't want to take all their meals through a straw, they don't want to swallow a pill for all their nutrition, and the pill wouldn't be as bioavailable as the food itself. So it's necessary, in terms of the human experience, that people eat.

5. Samantha Heller:

   The nutrition facts panel is confusing for just about everyone.

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