indigestible

Examples

• All

• The seed stays intact throughout the digestive process; it is indigestible by design.

  Blog text (29)

• After eating too many rich foods, I often feel uncomfortable because they are indigestible for me.

• Well, it's probably indigestible anyway.

  The Little Shop of Horrors (1960)

• What could you suggest that would be particularly rich and indigestible?

  Waterloo Bridge (1940)

• Everything's indigestible to some people.

  Adam's Rib (1949)

• She's making something healthy and indigestible.

  Fiction book (2001)

• Our people have always been good at digesting even the most indigestible items on life's menu.

  Fiction book (1991)

• Beans and other legumes have sugars (a lot of which are indigestible and give beans their "musical" qualities).

  Blog text (5)

• But when you eat foods high in fiber, like vegetables, fruits, and whole grains, those indigestible beta bonds slow the release of glucose into the blood.

• The fungus can do what the insects cannot: break down indigestible leaf pieces harvested by the leaf-cutting ants and turn them into absorbable nutrients.

  Academic text (1995)

Synonyms

S

stodgy

vsindigestible

1 7.5

Heavy, filling food that is hard to digest

is about being difficult or impossible to break down, not about heaviness

N

nondigestible

vsindigestible

• Specialized

6.7

Cannot be broken down by the body

is often only hard to break down rather than completely impossible

U

unassimilable

vsindigestible

• Specialized

9.3

Not able to be absorbed or used by living things

is focused on difficulty of being processed in the body rather than system absorption

Antonyms

D

digestible

2 3.2

Able to be broken down and taken into the body

How Digestible

digestible

2 3.2

indigestible

2 6.0

Surface Forms

Morphology

Etymology