perishable

Examples

• All

• There is fresh fuh-juk, too, but it is perishable and requires refrigeration.

  Academic text (2001)

• I got a priority load of perishable goods here.

  Space Truckers (1996)

• One resident explained, "I will not throw out perishable food that will stay good over the break."

  Blog text (23)

• In some instances, especially in the case of perishable foods, a product is held past its shelf life.

  Academic text (2000)

• Those vaccines he's transferring to us are highly perishable.

  Baraka (1992)

• Those drugs are perishable.

  Baraka (1992)

• Poetry is a perishable commodity; Russian imports to the US are presently negligible.

  Academic text (2008)

• All the perishable harvest resources of forest-dependent communities are jeopardized by unreliable water transport.

  Academic text (2013)

• And when the industrial food guys go about preserving foods, they remove perishable nutrients and reduce the flavor only to prolong the shelf life.

  Big Think

• You should store perishable items like fruits and vegetables in the refrigerator to prevent spoilage.

Synonyms

S

spoilable

vsperishable

1 5.8

Likely to go bad and become unsafe to eat or use

is likely to do so within a short time

D

decayable

vsperishable

6.5

Able to rot or break down naturally

is about quick deterioration rather than slow decomposition

P

putrescible

vsperishable

• Specialized

9.9

Likely to rot, like food or plant waste

is broader, applying to any cause of going bad

Antonyms

I

imperishable

2 7.3

Not able to be destroyed and lasting forever

N

nonperishable

1 3.2

Lasts a long time without going bad

How Perishable

short-lived

52 3.9

perishable

15 4.6

durable

58 3.6

nonperishable

1 3.2

Surface Forms

Morphology

Etymology