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swallowable

swallowable

3.7
Small and safe enough to eat or drink without choking
  • adjective
  • /ˈswɑloʊəbl/
translation icon : tragable
  • This new medicine is designed to be swallowable for patients of all ages.

Examples

  • Doctors recommend the swallowable tablets for quick relief of symptoms.

  • You got gut probes and a pill, swallowable device that can detail your gut, even infants and children.

  • The swallowable sensor that Kasanoff is referring to is the first "digital pill" that can track your health from the inside, according to Medical News Today.

    Blog text (13)

  • Buy 'em by the sack, humming deep in my head, jaw working to grind the slider into swallowable chunks, I turned back to stare out the window at the house.

    Fiction book (1999)

  • The capsule is small and swallowable, making it easy for children to take.

Synonyms

ingestible
vsswallowable
1 3.9

Safe to eat or swallow

is only safe to be swallowed, not necessarily eaten

How Edible

delicious
419 1.0
palatable
31 4.9
edible
78 1.4
swallowable
3.7
unpalatable
9 7.4
inedible
11 4.5

Surface Forms

swallowable positive

Morphology

swallowable = swallow (transparent) = swallow + able

Literal, direct adjectival formation from the verb 'swallow' meaning 'able to be swallowed'.

Etymology

Swallowable comes from the verb swallow ('to take something into your mouth and push it down') and the ending -able ('able to'). So something swallowable is 'able to be swallowed', meaning it can be safely or easily eaten or taken as medicine.