unnourishingadj.
/(ˌ)ʌnˈnʌrɪʃɪŋ/, U.S. /ˌənˈnərɪʃɪŋ/, /ˌənˈnʊrɪʃɪŋ/ Not nourishing.
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the world > relative properties > quantity > insufficiency > [adjective] > limited in quantity or amount > scanty or meagre
feeblec1275
straita1300
thinc1374
threadbarec1412
exile?1440
silly?a1500
pilled1526
thinnish1540
carrion-lean1542
carrion1565
exiled?1577
penurious1594
unnourishing1605
starveling1611
meagre1612
short-handed1622
lanka1644
scrimp1681
strigose1708
skimp1775
skimping1775
spare1813
shy1821
scrimping1823
skimpy1842
slim1852
scrappy1985
minnowy1991
the world > food and drink > food > qualities of food > [adjective] > nourishing > not
mistrum?c1225
leanc1325
weak1382
hungry1561
excremental1576
unnourishable1590
low1603
excrementitial1620
heartless1620
excrementitious1623
inalimental1626
sustenanceless1630
lifeless1633
excrementious1636
oligotrophic1659
meagre1663
unnutritive1700
innutritious1796
unnutritious1821
innutrient1822
unalimentary1822
unnourishing1826
innutritive1844
foodless1916
1605 G. Chapman Al Fooles i. i. 185 A gentlewoman: But her unnurishing dowry must be tolde Out of her beauty.
1640 E. Reynolds Treat. Passions xx The minde being mollified and puffed up with windie and unnourishing comfort.
1680 J. Monson Disc. Supreme Power & Common Right iv. 77 They never..licensed the crude and unnourishing Vapours of others empty Wits upon the credulous People.
1705 G. Psalmanazar Hist. & Geogr. Descr. Formosa (ed. 2) i. viii. 37 These Regular Priests..even fast from this unnourishing Dyet very frequently.
1796 Sketch Parisian Happiness 9 A wretched and unnourishing compound of beans, barley, and potatoes.
1826 C. Lamb in New Monthly Mag. 16 263 The aliment of this poor babe was thin, unnourishing.
1860 E. B. Pusey Minor Prophets 216 Which..sold to the poor only what, although unnourishing, was wholesome!
1926 Geogr. Jrnl. 67 475 The squalid condition, unhealthy appearance, and unnourishing food of these natives.
2009 Gastronomica Fall 86/1 A homogenized, unnourishing place where no one remembers how to cook or enjoy food.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, December 2014; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
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