indigestible

English

Etymology

From in- +‎ digestible.

Adjective

indigestible (comparative more indigestible, superlative most indigestible)

1. Difficult or impossible to digest.
2. (by extension) Difficult to accept; unpalatable.

Derived terms

• indigestibleness
• indigestibly

Translations

difficult or impossible to digest

Bulgarian: трудно смилаем (trudno smilaem) Catalan: indigest (ca), indigerible Czech: nestravitelný (cs) Dutch: onverteerbaar (nl) Esperanto: nedigestebla Finnish: sulamaton (fi), vaikea sulattaa, vaikeasti sulatettava French: indigeste (fr) Galician: indixesto, indixerible (gl), indixeríbel (gl) German: unverdaulich (de) Hungarian: emészthetetlen (hu) Latin: indigestibilis Ottoman Turkish: آغر (ağır) Polish: niestrawny (pl), ciężki (pl) Spanish: indigesto (es), indigerible (es)

Noun

indigestible (plural indigestibles)

1. Anything that is difficult to digest.
   • 1872, James Parton, The Life of Horace Greeley:

     "Take a cruller, any way," said she, handing him a cake-basket containing a dozen or so of those unspeakable, Dutch indigestibles.

Further reading

• “indigestible”, in OneLook Dictionary Search.

Spanish

Adjective

indigestible m or f (masculine and feminine plural indigestibles)

1. (obsolete) indigestible

   Synonym: indigerible

Further reading

• “indigestible”, in Diccionario de la lengua española [Dictionary of the Spanish Language] (in Spanish), online version 23.8, Royal Spanish Academy [Spanish: Real Academia Española], 10 December 2024