unchewable

Examples

• All

• The steak they served me was practically unchewable due to all the gristle.

• The steak was so overcooked that it was completely unchewable.

• I had to spit out the unchewable piece of meat because it was impossible to swallow.

• This steak is completely unchewable!

• The meat was so unchewable that I had to spit it out.

• She tried to eat the chicken, but it was unchewable and tough.

• After hours of cooking, the meat remained unchewable and barely edible.

Synonyms

T

tough

vsunchewable

31 1.7

Hard to cut and chew, often meat or old bread

is excessively hard to chew making it effectively impossible to eat

I

inedible

vsunchewable

11 4.5

Not safe to eat because it can make you sick

means it cannot be eaten, but not always due to chewability

S

stringy

vsunchewable

3 4.4

Tough and full of thin fibers that are hard to chew

is too difficult to chew to allow normal eating because of texture

S

sinewy

vsunchewable

1 7.6

Meat with tough bits that are hard to chew

is so hard to chew that it cannot be eaten because of texture

F

fibrous

vsunchewable

1 6.0

Having tough stringy parts that are hard to chew

is so hard to chew that it prevents eating due to fiber texture

U

untender

vsunchewable

7.9

Not gentle or kind in manner and not soft in feel

refers especially to texture being so firm it cannot be chewed

U

uneatable

vsunchewable

5.2

Not safe or good to eat

specifically cannot be chewed because its texture makes eating impossible

Antonyms

C

chewable

3 1.4

Easy to eat by biting with the teeth

How Chewable

soft

552 1.0

tender

56 1.0

chewy

27 1.0

tough

31 1.7

unchewable

1 7.1

Surface Forms

Morphology

Etymology