Indigestible
[ɪndɪ'dʒestɪb(ə)l;-daɪ-] or [,ɪndɪ'dʒɛstəbl]
Definition
(a.) Not digestible; not readily soluble in the digestive juices; not easily convertible into products fitted for absorption.
(a.) Not digestible in the mind; distressful; intolerable; as, an indigestible simile.
Inputed by Ethel
Synonyms and Synonymous
a. That cannot be digested.
Edited by Hamilton
Synonyms and Antonyms
SYN:Crude, raw, heavy
ANT:Digestible, nutritive, light
Edited by Clare
Examples
- To-day it is as if a hungry man asked for an indigestible food, and we let him go hungry because he was unwise. Walter Lippmann. A Preface to Politics.
- The doughy mass which goes into the oven, comes out a light spongy loaf; the small indigestible rice grain comes out the swollen, fluffy, digestible grain. Bertha M. Clark. General Science.
Edited by Clare