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indigestible /ɪndɪˈdʒɛstɪb(ə)l / /ɪndʌɪˈdʒɛstɪb(ə)l/adjective1(Of food) difficult or impossible to digest: haute cuisine was largely indigestible to the majority...- This for me was very refreshing considering I had indigestible food for breakfast.
- One of the papers in Science reveals the genetics of a dominant gut bug that serves humans well by breaking down otherwise indigestible food.
- Occasionally, cats eat grass in order to clear their stomach of indigestible food, like bones, fur, and feathers.
2Too complex or awkward to read or understand easily: a turgid and indigestible book...- He serves up vast helpings of indigestible fact.
- He kept up to date by reading the papers and gorging on TV, digesting the indigestible.
- Far too many words for comfort, quite indiscriminately absorbed, and now forming a stodgy, indigestible mass in my short-term memory.
Derivativesindigestibility /ɪndɪdʒɛstɪˈbɪlɪti / /ɪndʌɪdʒɛstɪˈbɪlɪti / noun ...- Farmers can delay harvesting until conditions improve and suffer a drop of 0.5 units indigestibility for each day that harvesting is delayed after the grass has headed.
- Tannins act as feeding deterrents either because of their astringency (reduction in palatability) or indigestibility (protein binding characteristics).
- For many critics, the term ‘pastiche’ embodied the unacceptable indigestibility of stylistic mixing.
indigestibly adverb ...- As you can see, it gets perilously dense, but never indigestibly campy.
- It was also true that American English seemed a less élitist, more democratic vehicle of expression than their own indigestibly classical texts.
- The prose in this book is well-written and easy to read, a blessing given how indigestibly ponderous most textbooks are.
OriginLate 15th century: via French from late Latin indigestibilis, from in- 'not' + digestibilis (see digestible). |