eatableadjective
uk/ˈiː.tə.bəl/us/ˈiː.t̬ə.bəl/Food that is eatable is good enough to eat, but not excellent.
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edible
Thesaurus: synonyms and related words
Edible & inedible
- best-before date
- condemned
- drinkable
- edible
- fit
- indigestible
- inedible
- palatable
- potable
- pull date
- sell-by date
- spoil
- unpalatable
- unripe
Examples from literature
- It was a bit stuffy, but the food was eatable.
- Still they were all eatable, and most of them really palatable.
- The tea's cold and as black as ink, growled the indignant lodger, "and the egg isn't eatable."
- The tongue, tenderloin and brisket are generally preferred, but all the meat is eatable.
- They looked at the food as critics, and acknowledged it to be eatable, with the faint air of an exile's sadness.