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nourishment - 14 thesaurus results
| Main Entry: | nourishment |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | food |
| Synonyms: | diet, feed, maintenance, nutriment, nutrition, pabulum, provender, support, sustenance, viands, victuals, vittles*, aliment, foodstuff, home cooking, pap |
| Antonyms: | deprivation, starvation |
* = informal/non-formal usage
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| Main Entry: | nourishment |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
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Adjectives: |
adipsous, alible, alimentary, alimonious, amophagous, amphivorous, androphagous, anthophilous, anthropophagous, apivorous, arachnivorous, baccivorous, batrachivorous, bibulous, biophagous, cannibalistic, carnivorous, cepivorous, coenaculous, comestible, coprophagous, creophagous, dietetic, dipsetic, eatable, edacious, edible, entomophagous, equivorous, esculent, euryphagous, eutrophic, foisoned, frugivorous, fucivorous, galactophagous, geophagous, graminivorous, granivorous, hematophagous, herbivorous, hippophagous, hylophagous, ichthyophagous, ichthyophagus, insectivorous, lactivorous, lacto, limivorous, lithophagus, lotophagous, mellivorous, merdivorous, monophagous, myrmecophagous, necrophagous, nucivorous, nutritious, nutritive, oligophagous, omnivorous, oophagous, ophiophagous, oryzivorous, ossivorous, ovivorous, panivorous, phthirophagous, phyllophagous, phyticorous, phytivorous, phytophagous, piscivorous, pleophagous, poculent, poltophagic, polyphagous, porcipophagic, potable, potulent, predaceous, ranivorous, sanguinivorous, saprophagous, sarcophagic, scatophagous, scolecophagous, seminivorous, subruminative, trophic, vegan, vegetarian, xerophagous, xylophagous
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| Main Entry: | eats |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | food |
| Synonyms: | chow, comestibles, fare, grub*, nosh*, nourishment, nutriment, provisions, sustenance, victuals, vittles, eatables, meals, rations, snacks, tidbits |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | food |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | edible material |
| Synonyms: | bite*, board, bread, cheer, chow*, comestible, cooking, cuisine, diet, drink, eatable, eats*, entrée, fare, fast food, feed, fodder*, grit*, groceries*, grub*, handout*, keep, larder, meal, meat, menu, mess*, nourishment, nutriment, nutrition, pabulum, provision, ration, refreshment, slop*, snack, store, subsistence, support, sustenance, table, tuck, vittles*, aliment, cookery, foodstuff, goodies, home cooking, moveable feast, take out, viand, victual |
| Antonyms: | beverage, drink |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | fuel |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | something providing energy |
| Synonyms: | ammunition, combustible, electricity, encouragement, food, gas, incitement, juice, material, means, nourishment, provocation, propellant |
| Main Entry: | goodness |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | decency, excellence |
| Synonyms: | advantage, benefit, benevolence, friendliness, generosity, good will, grace, honesty, honor, integrity, kindheartedness, kindness, mercy, merit, morality, nourishment, probity, quality, rectitude, righteousness, superiority, uprightness, value, virtue, worth, beneficence, ethicality, graciousness, humaneness, kindliness, obligingness, rightness, wholesomeness |
| Antonyms: | evil, indecency, meanness, wickedness |
| Main Entry: | nutrition |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | food |
| Synonyms: | diet, menu, nourishment, nutriment, subsistence, sustenance, victuals, dietetics |
| Antonyms: | deprivation, starvation |
| Main Entry: | sustenance |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | necessities for existence |
| Synonyms: | aid, bacon*, bread*, bread and butter, comestible, food, keep, livelihood, maintenance, nourishment, nutrition, provender, provision, ration, refreshment, salt*, subsistence, support, wherewithal, aliment, daily bread, eatables, edibles, pap, victual |
| Antonyms: | extras |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | victuals |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | food supplies |
| Synonyms: | bread, chow*, comestibles, eats, fare, feed, groceries*, grub, larder, meal, nourishment, provender, provisions, snack, supplies, viands, vittles, aliment, eatables, edibles, foodstuff, goodies, rations, refreshments |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | vittles |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | food |
| Synonyms: | chow*, comestibles, eats, fare, groceries*, grub, larder, meal, nourishment, provender, provisions, snack, viands, victuals, eatables, edibles, foodstuff, goodies, refreshments |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | bread |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | daily food |
| Synonyms: | comestibles, diet, fare, feed, grub*, nourishment, nurture, nutriment, provender, provisions, staff of life*, subsistence, sustenance, viands, victuals, aliment, bed and board, necessities, shingle |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | help |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | assistance, relief |
| Synonyms: | advice, aid, assist, avail, balm*, benefit, comfort, cooperation, corrective, cure, guidance, hand, helping hand, lift*, maintenance, nourishment, remedy, service, succor, support, sustenance, use, utility |
| Antonyms: | check, harm, hindrance, hurt, injury, obstruction, stop, blockage, counteraction |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | meat |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | flesh of animal consumed as food |
| Synonyms: | brawn, chow, comestible, eats*, edible, fare, food, grub*, muscle, nourishment, nutriment, provision, ration, subsistence, sustenance, aliment, foodstuff, victual |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | diet |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | daily intake of food |
| Synonyms: | bite, comestibles, commons, fare, menu, nourishment, nutriment, nutrition, provisions, snack, subsistence, sustenance, viands, victuals, aliment, daily bread, edibles, goodies, grubbery, rations |
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