innutritiousadj.
/ɪnjuːˈtrɪʃəs/ Not nutritious; affording no nourishment. Also transferred.
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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
1796 W. Seward Anecd. I. 174 Masticating some light and innutritious substance.
1809–10 S. T. Coleridge Friend (1818) II. 288 Too scanty and too innutritious food.
1872 T. H. Huxley Lessons Elem. Physiol. (ed. 6) vi. 139 The whole purpose of the alimentary apparatus is to separate these proteids, &c. from the innutritious residue.
1893 F. C. Selous Trav. S.-E. Afr. 109 Living for a long time on very innutritious food.
1905 Sydney Morning Herald 15 Feb. 4/6 The..teacher is offered for his mental food these innutritious products as the bread of life.
1916 E. V. Lucas Vermilion Box cxxv. 141 As a rule I have found that the soldier who sits opposite one on railway journeys is an innutritious person, whether he has been to the front or not.
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