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undigested

undigested

5 6.1
Food left in the stomach because the body did not break it down, or an idea not fully thought about
  • adjective
  • /ˌʌn.dɪˈdʒɛs.tɪd/
translation icon : indigerido
  • The doctor explained that the patient had undigested food in his stomach due to a slow digestive process.

That shame in them is just like undigested fast food swimming around in their gut.

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Examples

  • No food, but some undigested capsules.

    Fiction book (1995)
  • If this is correct, then it only shows the extent to which liberalism is misunderstood and its message undigested.

    Academic text (1999)
  • So we're talking bones, skin, undigested food, fluid, like all that kind of stuff.

  • So all her grief goes undigested.

  • That shame in them is just like undigested fast food swimming around in their gut.

  • No, it swallowed the watch, too, and passed it, undigested.

  • You know, it says here that by the time the average American is 50, he's got five pounds of undigested red meat in his bowels.

  • Ideas on art, on politics, on morality emerge as conglomerates of undigested concepts that can be shifted around at will.

    Academic text (1993)
  • As a result, undigested food can start rotting in the gut, effectively initiating the death sentence.

    Blog text (5)
  • Such a Europe would have remained a mosaic of warring tribes, undigested and unreconciled in their separate feeding camps.

    Academic text (1999)

Synonyms

unprocessed
vsundigested
5 3.4

Not changed from its natural form

applies to food or ideas not absorbed or integrated into the body or mind
unassimilated
vsundigested
  • Specialized
8.4

Not absorbed or digested by the body

is about food or ideas not yet processed or fully understood
unabsorbed
vsundigested
6.1

Not taken into something, for example liquid or light left on the surface

focuses more on bodily or mental lack of assimilation rather than surface presence

Antonyms

52 2.8

To break down food in the body so the body can use it

How Digested

digestible
2 3.2
undigested
5 6.1
indigestible
2 6.0

Surface Forms

undigested positive

Morphology

undigested = digested (transparent) = un + digest + ed

Formed by adding the productive negative prefix 'un-' to 'digested' (past participle), so the meaning 'not broken down/assimilated' is directly inferable.

Etymology

Undigested comes from the prefix un- meaning 'not' and the word digest meaning 'to break down and absorb'. So undigested describes food that has not been broken down in the body or ideas that have not been fully understood.