nutrient-poor
Deficient in sustenance
Nutrient-poor describes soil, water, or food that lacks adequate nutrients to support healthy growth or nutrition.
Nutrient-poor soil struggles to sustain plant life without fertilization.
A nutrient-poor diet fails to provide essential vitamins and minerals: The refugee camp's nutrient-poor rations led to widespread deficiencies.
Severely reduced or emptied
- infertileUnable to produce offspring
- barrenUnable to produce
- sandyFull of fine grains
- degradedReduced in rank or quality
leached · eroded · overfarmed · acidic · compacted · exhausted · fallow · sterile
Acidic peat wetland
- peatlandWetland with accumulated plant matter
- heathOpen land with shrubs
- adaptationFitting to new conditions
- alpineOf high elevations
tundra · serpentine · endemic · slow-growing
Subjected to operations
- refinedPurified or cultured
- sugaryContaining much sweetener
- white-breadBoringly conventional and safe
- sodaCarbonated soft drink
candy · chips · fast-food · deep-fried · preservatives · additives · packaged · shelf-stable
Having too little
- malnourishedLacking proper nutrition
- inadequateNot sufficient for purpose
- unbalancedLacking equilibrium or stability
- lackingBeing without something
anemia · scurvy · rickets · supplementation · fortified · bioavailability · absorption · subsistence
depleted
Severely reduced or emptied
degraded · leached · eroded · overfarmed · acidic · compacted · exhausted · fallow · sterile · desertified
bog
Acidic peat wetland
- peatlandWetland with accumulated plant matter
- heathOpen land with shrubs
- adaptationFitting to new conditions
alpine · tundra · serpentine · endemic · slow-growing
processed
Subjected to operations
- refinedPurified or cultured
- sugaryContaining much sweetener
- white-breadBoringly conventional and safe
soda · candy · chips · fast-food · deep-fried · preservatives · additives · packaged · shelf-stable · stripped
deficient
Having too little
- malnourishedLacking proper nutrition
- inadequateNot sufficient for purpose
- unbalancedLacking equilibrium or stability
lacking · anemia · scurvy · rickets · supplementation · fortified · bioavailability · absorption · subsistence
- soil typesclay soil, sandy soil, loamy soil, rocky soil, loam
nutrient-poornutrient-rich
Containing abundant nourishment
nutrient-dense · fertile · rich · mineral-rich · enriched
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