Synonyms for Nurture:

n.
- conveyor belt
- potty-train
- drag out
- draw out
- eke out
- hold over
- spin out
- string out
• attribute
- nurture
• bread
- bed and board
- shingle
- shingles
• breeding
- rearings
• edification
- in formations
- in-formation
- in-formations
- up lifting
- up-lifting
- upliftings
• education
- Pedagogics
- Propagandism
- apprenticeships
- book learning
- drillings
- inculcation
- learnedness
- literacy
- proselytism
- schooling
• maintenance
- bread butter
- re pairs
- re source
- re sources
- re-pairs
- re-source
- re-sources
- retainments
- sustainings
- sustainments
- sustentions
- up keep
- up keeps
- up-keep
- up-keeps
• pap
- cookeries
- cookery
- eatables
- home cooking
- moveable feast
- viand
v.
• bring up
- provides for
- providing for
• care
- keep eye on
- keeping an eye on
- keeping eye on
- keeping tabs on
- keeps an eye on
- keeps eye on
- keeps tabs on
- kept eye on
- kept tabs on
- mind store
- minded store
- minded the store
- minding store
- minds store
- minds the store
- payed attention to
- takes pains
- taking pains
- took pains
- watches over
• cherish
- apprizes
- clave to
- cleaved to
- cleaves to
- cleaving to
- cleft to
- clinging to
- clove to
- clung to
- de fend
- de fended
- de fending
- de fends
- de-fend
- de-fended
- de-fending
- de-fends
- held high esteem
- hold high esteem
- holding dear
- holding high esteem
- holding in high esteem
- holds dear
- holds high esteem
- holds in high esteem
- pre serve
- pre served
- pre serves
- pre serving
- pre-serve
- pre-served
- pre-serves
- pre-serving
• cultivate
- gat good side of
- gat in with
- gat next to
- gat on good side of
- gat with
- get good side of
- get with
- gets good side of
- gets in with
- gets next to
- gets on good side of
- gets with
- getting good side of
- getting in with
- getting next to
- getting on good side of
- getting with
- got good side of
- got in with
- got next to
- got on good side of
- got with
- gotten good side of
- gotten in with
- gotten next to
- gotten on good side of
- gotten with
- play to
- played to
- played up to
- playing to
- playing up to
- plays to
- plays up to
- ran after
- re fine
- re fined
- re fines
- re-fine
- re-fines
- re-fining
- runs after
- seeking friendship
- seeks friendship
- shined to
- shined up to
- shines to
- shines up to
- shining to
- shining up to
- shone to
- shone up to
- sought friendship
- suck to
- sucked to
- sucked up to
- sucking to
- sucking up to
- sucks to
- sucks up to
- takes pains with
- taking pains with
- took pains with
• educate
- co ached
- co-ached
- drum in to
- ex plain
- ex plained
- ex plaining
- ex plains
- ex-plain
- ex-plained
- ex-plaining
- ex-plains
- in form
- in forming
- in forms
- in-forming
- in-forms
- lets in on
- letted in on
- letting in on
- puts hip
- puts through grind
- puts through the grind
- putting hip
- putting through grind
- putting through the grind
- show ropes
- showed ropes
- showed the ropes
- showing ropes
- showing the ropes
- shows ropes
- shows the ropes
• feed on
- existed on
- existing on
- exists on
- had bite
- haddest a bite
- haddest bite
- hadst a bite
- hadst bite
- has a bite
- has bite
- hast a bite
- hast bite
- hath a bite
- hath bite
- have bite
- having a bite
- having bite
- in gest
- in gests
- in-gest
- in-gests
- lives on
- living on
- takes nourishment
- took nourishment
• foment
- ex cite
- ex cited
- ex cites
- ex citing
- ex-cite
- ex-cited
- ex-cites
- fan flames
- fanned flames
- fanned the flames
- fanning flames
- fanning the flames
- fans flames
- fans the flames
- in cite
- in cites
- in-cite
- in-cited
- sets on
- setting on
- sowed seeds
- sowed the seeds
- sowing seeds
- sowing the seeds
- sows seeds
- sows the seeds
• foster
- up held
- up hold
- up holding
- up holds
- up-held
- up-hold
- up-holding
- up-holds
• groom
- Primmed
- Primming
- lick in to shape
- licked in to shape
- licked into shape
- licking in to shape
- licking into shape
- licks in to shape
- licks into shape
- made attractive
- made presentable
- makes attractive
- makes presentable
- making attractive
- making presentable
- prettied up
- pretties up
- prettying up
- puts through mill
- putting through mill
- re adies
- re fresh
- re freshes
- re-adies
- re-fresh
- re-freshes
- rubbed down
- rubbing down
- rubs down
- shapes up
- shaping up
- slicking up
- slicks up
- smartening up
- smartens up
- spiffing up
- spiffs up
• harbor
- be lieve
- be-lieve
- brooded over
- brooding over
- broods over
- provided refuge
- provides refuge
- providing refuge
- re gards
- re tain
- re tains
- re-gard
- re-tain
- re-tains
- with held
- with hold
- with holding
- with holds
- with-held
- with-hold
- with-holds
• imagine
- build castles air
- builded castles air
- builded castles in air
- building castles air
- building castles in air
- builds castles air
- builds castles in air
- built castles air
- built castles in air
- de pict
- de picts
- de vise
- de vised
- de vising
- de-pict
- de-picts
- de-vise
- de-vised
- de-vising
- in vent
- in vented
- in venting
- in vents
- in-vent
- in-vented
- in-venting
- in-vents
- saw in mind
- saw in one mind
- saw in one's mind
- saw in ones mind
- saw mind
- saw one mind
- saw one's mind
- saw ones mind
- see in mind
- see in one mind
- see in ones mind
- see mind
- see one mind
- see one's mind
- see ones mind
- seeing in mind
- seeing in one mind
- seeing in one's mind
- seeing in ones mind
- seeing mind
- seeing one mind
- seeing one's mind
- seeing ones mind
- sees in mind
- sees in one mind
- sees in one's mind
- sees in ones mind
- sees mind
- sees one mind
- sees one's mind
- sees ones mind
- thinking up
- thinks of
- thinks up
• incubate
- pro duce
- pro duces
- pro-duces
• keep
- ministered to
- ministering to
- ministers to
• maintain
- goes on with
- going on with
- keeping going
- keeps going
- pro long
- pro longing
- pro longs
- pro-long
- pro-longed
- pro-longing
- pro-longs
- re new
- re news
- re pair
- re paired
- re pairing
- re-new
- re-news
- re-pair
- re-paired
- re-pairing
- taking care of
- went on with
Other synonyms:

•

buoy
chow
custody
foodstuff
get past
pap
prop up
provender
the empty nest
toilet-train
victual

•

aid
bread
diet
help
hothouse
rein

•

ease
forward
spoil

•

provision

•

fare

Other relevant words:

• bring up

• care for

tend

• consume

feed on

• feed

• feed on

• harbor

• imagine

• regale

• teach

• tend

• Other relevant words (noun):

Foods
Retainment
carryings
in formation
irradiation
irradiations
manners
nosh
raisings
vittles

• Other relevant words (transitive noun):

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Equivalence
- Adjective
  Nurtured.
Independent
- Noun, plural
  Mains, Diets, Students, teachings, feeds, foodstuffs, meals.
- Noun, singular or mass
  training, upbringing.
- Verb, 3rd person singular present
  speaks.
- Verb, base form
  acquire, augment, breed, care, cherish, conserve, consolidate, cure, developing, elevate, engender, enhanced, enrich, entertain, expand, foment, forge, fuel, generate, groom, grow, inspire, instil, instill, motivate, nurse, perpetuate, populate, prepare, preserve, produce, protect, raise, reinforce, retain, safeguard, spur, strengthen, strengthened, treasure, underpin, uphold, reinforcing, incentivise.
Other Related
- Verb, base form
  maintain, nourish.

What are the hypernyms for Nurture?

A hypernym is a word with a broad meaning that encompasses more specific words called hyponyms.

hypernyms for nurture (as verbs)
- communication
  serve well, patronage, serve, patronize, support, keep going, patronise.

What are the hyponyms for Nurture?

Hyponyms are more specific words categorized under a broader term, known as a hypernym.

hyponyms for nurture (as nouns)
- attribute
  upbringing.
hyponyms for nurture (as verbs)
- communication
  encourage.

What are the opposite words for nurture?

Nurture, meaning to care for and encourage growth or development, has several antonyms that convey the opposite meaning. The first antonym is neglect, which means to fail to care for or provide attention. The second antonym is hinder, implying an obstruction or impediment to growth or development. The third antonym is stifle or suppress, indicating the prevention or inhibition of growth or progress. The fourth antonym is discourage, which means to take away confidence or hope, thus discouraging growth or progress. In conclusion, the antonyms for nurture suggest a lack of concern, support or effort, leading to hindered or inhibited growth and development.

What are the antonyms for Nurture?

n.
• development, nourishment
- deprivation
- ignorance
- neglect
- negligence
- starvation
• noun
- averting
- forestallment
- prevention
v.
• feed, care for
- abandon
- decrease
- deprive
- destroy
- discontinue
- discourage
- drop
- halt
- ignore
- learn
- lessen
- repress
- starve
- stop
• neglect
- By-pass
- Overpassed
- Overpassing
- Pretermitted
- Pretermitting
- Scanted
- Scanting
- Slurring
- am careless
- am derelict
- am irresponsible
- am negligent
- am remiss
- are careless
- are derelict
- are irresponsible
- are remiss
- art careless
- art derelict
- art irresponsible
- art negligent
- art remiss
- be careless
- be derelict
- be irresponsible
- be negligent
- be remiss
- being careless
- being derelict
- being irresponsible
- being negligent
- being remiss
- by pass
- by passed
- by passes
- by passing
- by-passed
- by-passes
- by-passing
- de tested
- de testing
- de-tested
- de-testing
- dis card
- dis carded
- dis carding
- dis cards
- dis counted
- dis counting
- dis counts
- dis missed
- dis missing
- dis regard
- dis regarded
- dis regarding
- dis regards
- dis-card
- dis-carded
- dis-carding
- dis-cards
- dis-counted
- dis-counting
- dis-counts
- dis-missed
- dis-missing
- dis-regard
- dis-regarded
- dis-regarding
- dis-regards
- gloss over
- glossed over
- glosses over
- had nothing do with
- had nothing to do with
- haddest nothing do with
- haddest nothing to do with
- hadst nothing do with
- hadst nothing to do with
- has nothing do with
- has nothing to do with
- hast nothing do with
- hast nothing to do with
- hath nothing do with
- hath nothing to do with
- have nothing do with
- have nothing to do with
- having nothing do with
- having nothing to do with
- is derelict
- is irresponsible
- is negligent
- is remiss
- keep arm length
- keep arm's length
- keep arms length
- keep at arm length
- keep at arm's length
- keep at arms length
- keep distance
- keep one distance
- keep one's distance
- keep ones distance
- keeping arm length
- keeping arm's length
- keeping arms length
- keeping at arm length
- keeping at arm's length
- keeping at arms length
- keeping distance
- keeping one distance
- keeping one's distance
- keeping ones distance
- keeps arm length
- keeps arm's length
- keeps arms length
- keeps at arm length
- keeps at arm's length
- keeps at arms length
- keeps distance
- keeps one distance
- keeps one's distance
- keeps ones distance
- kept arm length
- kept arm's length
- kept arms length
- kept at arm length
- kept at arm's length
- kept at arms length
- kept distance
- kept one distance
- kept one's distance
- kept ones distance
- laugh off
- laughed off
- laughing off
- laughs off
- let pass
- let slide
- lets go
- lets pass
- letted go
- letted slide
- letting pass
- letting slide
- live with
- lived with
- living with
- look other way
- looked other way
- looked the other way
- looking other way
- looking the other way
- looks the other way
- lose sight of
- loses sight of
- losing sight of
- lost sight of
- made light of
- make light of
- makes light of
- making light of
- neglected
- not care for
- not trouble oneself
- over leap
- over leaping
- over leaps
- over look
- over looked
- over looks
- over pass
- over passed
- over passes
- over passing
- over-leap
- over-leaped
- over-leaping
- over-leapt
- over-look
- over-looking
- over-looks
- over-pass
- over-passed
- over-passes
- over-passing
- overleap
- overleaped
- overleaping
- overleaps
- overleapt
- overpast
- paid no attention to
- paid no mind
- pass up
- passed by
- passed up
- passes up
- passing up
- pay no attention to
- pay no mind
- payed no attention to
- payed no mind
- paying no attention to
- paying no mind
- pays no attention to
- pays no mind
- post pone
- post pones
- post-pones
- pretermit
- pretermits
- re buff
- re buffed
- re buffing
- re buffs
- re-buffed
- re-buffing
- re-buffs
- scants
- think little of
- thinking little of
- thought little of
- tune out
- tuned out
- tunes out
- tuning out
- under estimate
- under estimated
- under estimates
- under-estimate
- under-estimated
- under-estimates
- under-estimating
- was careless
- was derelict
- was irresponsible
- was negligent
- was remiss
- wast careless
- wast irresponsible
- wast negligent
- wast remiss
- were careless
- were derelict
- were negligent
- were remiss
- wert careless
- wert derelict
- wert negligent
- wert remiss
• noun
- arrest
- ban
- bar
- battle
- becloud
- check
- cloud
- combat
- confuse
- contend
- counter
- darken
- encumber
- fetter
- fight
- hinder
- hobble
- impede
- inhibit
- interdict
- interfere
- manacle
- obscure
- obstruct
- perplex
- puzzle
- shackle
- snuff
- stifle
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Usage examples for Nurture

So day by day the companionable feet of the happy couple moved to and fro, always intent on the nurture and care of their children.

"Moonshine & Clover"

Laurence Housman

Parents are told in the Bible how they must bring up their children in the nurture and admonition of the Lord; and children, how they must obey their parents.

"Slavery and the Constitution"

William Ingersoll Bowditch

As Boone was the exponent of the hills of hardship, which had been the barriers the pioneers had to conquer, so, he thought, was she the flower of that nurture that had bloomed in the places of their victory.

"The Tempering"

Charles Neville Buck

Famous quotes with Nurture

There is a human capital crisis in the federal government. Not only are we losing the decades of talent as civil servants retire, we are not doing enough to develop and nurture the next generation of public servants.

Daniel Akaka
The glory of gardening: hands in the dirt, head in the sun, heart with nature. To nurture a garden is to feed not just on the body, but the soul.

Alfred Austin
It really hasn't been demonstrated at any level by any major corporation that it can nurture what is euphemistically called creativity.

Peter Bart
To go from mortal to Buddha, you have to put an end to karma, nurture your awareness, and accept what life brings.

Bodhidharma
Most of my time, energy and other resources I use to nurture my projects.

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n.

v.

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