Word Meanings - NURTURE - Book Publishers vocabulary database

1. The act of nourishing or nursing; thender care; education; training. A man neither by nature nor by nurture wise. Milton. 2. That which nourishes; food; diet. Spenser.

Possible synonyms: (Same meaning words of NURTURE)

• Breeding
• Nurture
• education
• training
• discipline
• instruction
• manners
• air
• demeanor
• decorum
• Cherish
• Foster
• nurse
• promote
• nourish
• nurture
• comfort
• protect
• entertain
• value
• encourage
• Educate
• Instruct
• train
• teach
• develop
• ground
• school
• initiate
• Nourish
• fed
• foster
• cherish
• tend
• support
• Support Bear
• uphold
• sustain
• underlie
• befriend
• assist
• second
• further
• suffer
• defend
• endorse
• maintain
• continue
• countenance
• patronize
• subsidize
• help
• back
• stay
• favor
• prop

Possible antonyms: (opposite words of NURTURE)

• Oppose
• confront
• discourage
• discountenance
• browbeat
• Drop
• betray
• surrender
• abandon
• discontinue
• oppose
• weaken
• exhaust
• thwart
• disfavor
• subvert
• suppress
• Miscompute
• misestimate
• disesteem
• disregard
• vilipend
• underrate
• undervalue
• underestimate
• despise
• contemn
• cheapen
• vilify

Related words: (words related to NURTURE)

• SECOND
  1. Immediately following the first; next to the first in order of place or time; hence, occuring again; another; other. And he slept and dreamed the second time. Gen. xli. 5. 2. Next to the first in value, power, excellence, dignity,
• ASSISTANTLY
  In a manner to give aid.
• DISREGARDFULLY
  Negligently; heedlessly.
• MAINTAIN
  by the hand; main hand + F. tenir to hold . See 1. To hold or keep in any particular state or condition; to support; to sustain; to uphold; to keep up; not to suffer to fail or decline; as, to maintain a certain degree of heat in a furnace;
• SUSTAIN
  F. soutenir (the French prefix is properly fr. L. subtus below, fr. sub under), L. sustinere; pref. sus- + tenere to hold. See 1. To keep from falling; to bear; to uphold; to support; as, a foundation sustains the superstructure; a beast sustains
• SUPPORTABLE
  Capable of being supported, maintained, or endured; endurable. -- Sup*port"a*ble*ness, n. -- Sup*port"a*bly, adv.
• TEACHER
  1. One who teaches or instructs; one whose business or occupation is to instruct others; an instructor; a tutor. 2. One who instructs others in religion; a preacher; a minister of the gospel; sometimes, one who preaches without regular ordination.
• CONFRONT
  1. To stand facing or in front of; to face; esp. to face hostilely; to oppose with firmness. We four, indeed, confronted were with four In Russian habit. Shak. He spoke and then confronts the bull. Dryden. Hester caught hold of Pearl, and drew
• ENDORSER
  See INDORSER
• TEACHABLENESS
  Willingness to be taught.
• COMFORTLESS
  Without comfort or comforts; in want or distress; cheerless. Comfortless through turanny or might. Spenser. Syn. -- Forlorn; desolate; cheerless; inconsolable; disconsolate; wretched; miserable. -- Com"fort*less*ly, adv. -- Com"fort*less*ness, n.
• SUPPORTATION
  Maintenance; support. Chaucer. Bacon.
• FAVOR
  Partiality; bias. Bouvier. 9. A letter or epistle; -- so called in civility or compliment; as, your favor of yesterday is received. 10. pl. (more info) L. favor, fr. favere to be favorable, cf. Skr. bhavaya to further, foster, causative of bhBe.
• GROUNDWORK
  That which forms the foundation or support of anything; the basis; the essential or fundamental part; first principle. Dryden.
• SCHOOL-TEACHER
  One who teaches or instructs a school. -- School"-teach`ing, n.
• GROUNDEN
  p. p. of Grind. Chaucer.
• ASSISTANCE
  1. The act of assisting; help; aid; furtherance; succor; support. Without the assistance of a mortal hand. Shak. 2. An assistant or helper; a body of helpers. Wat Tyler killed by valiant Walworth, the lord mayor of London, and his assistance,
• CHERISHMENT
  Encouragement; comfort. Rich bounty and dear cherishment. Spenser.
• MISCOMPUTE
  To compute erroneously. Sir T. Browne.
• INSTRUCTRESS
  A woman who instructs; a preceptress; a governess. Johnson.
• LONG-SUFFERANCE
  Forbearance to punish or resent.
• MISGROUND
  To found erroneously. "Misgrounded conceit." Bp. Hall.
• STRAINABLE
  1. Capable of being strained. 2. Violent in action. Holinshed.
• UNDERGROUND INSURANCE
  Wildcat insurance.
• PREINSTRUCT
  To instruct previously or beforehand. Dr. H. More.
• RESTRAINABLE
  Capable of being restrained; controllable. Sir T. Browne.