comestible
8.7
Can be eaten without harm
- adjective
- /kəˈmɛstɪbəl/
- Formal
:
comestible
- During the picnic, everyone enjoyed the comestible treats we had brought along.
Examples
-
All in all, edible but not really comestible, if you take my meaning.
Blog text (25) -
The ultimate in comestible friendliness.
Fiction book (1996) -
The fifth plant, Jerusalem artichoke, was Gibbons's choice comestible from the wild.
Academic text (1991) -
Most stalls give out small free samples, but they are also selling bags of beans, sausages, hunks of cheese, oils, loaves of bread, and every manner of comestible.
Blog text (1) -
The chef prepared a variety of comestible dishes using fresh ingredients.
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At the market, I found many comestible fruits and vegetables to choose from.
Synonyms
edible
vscomestible
78
1.4
Safe to eat and does not make you sick
is broader, applying to suitability as food rather than only human consumption
ingestible
vscomestible
1
3.9
Safe to eat or swallow
is about suitability as food rather than just being safely swallowed
Antonyms
How Edible
Surface Forms
comestible positive
Etymology
Comestible comes from the Latin verb comedere, which means 'to eat up', so as an adjective comestible means 'able to be eaten', the same idea as the common word edible.