Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- Not nutritive or nourishing; supplying little or no nutriment.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- adjective Innutritious.
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- adjective archaic Lacking in
nutrition .
Etymologies
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Examples
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Christopher found the mollusc very shy, the shell innutritive.
Cruel Barbara Allen From Coals Of Fire And Other Stories, Volume II. (of III.) David Christie Murray
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For you must know that Brahmins grow a capillary oasis there alone, where most Westerners are innutritive in old age.
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Indeed, for Raymond, who had been accustomed to think that in a general way he knew pretty well what the French capital was, this was a strange, fresh Paris altogether, destitute of the salt that seasoned it for most palates, and yet not insipid nor innutritive.
A London Life and Other Tales Henry James 1879
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On either side the acquaintance had helped the time to pass, and the hours he spent at the little _pension_ at Posilippo left a sweet -- and by no means innutritive -- taste behind.
Georgina's Reasons Henry James 1879
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The other principle — the innutritive portion — passes from the intestines, and is thus got rid of.
The Book of Household Management Isabella Mary 1861
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The other principle — the innutritive portion — passes from the intestines, and is thus got rid of.
The Book of Household Management Isabella Mary 1861
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Do they not imply that, even supposing the same stature and bulk to be attained on an innutritive as on a nutritive diet, the quality of tissue is greatly inferior?
Essays on Education and Kindred Subjects Everyman's Library Herbert Spencer 1861
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In a cow, subsisting on so innutritive a food as grass, we see that the immense quantity required necessitates an enormous digestive system; that the limbs, small in comparison with the body, are burdened by its weight; that in carrying about this heavy body and digesting this excessive quantity of food, much force is expended; and that, having but little remaining, the creature is sluggish.
Essays on Education and Kindred Subjects Everyman's Library Herbert Spencer 1861
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They are books of dreams, visions, reveries, which are to the mind what fogs would be for food, and air for drink, innutritive and vain.
Aurelian or, Rome in the Third Century William Ware 1824
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