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adj
Suitable for eating; eatable, edible.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: formal
No example sentence was provided for this meaning.
Synonyms: comestible, consumable, eatable, eatworthy, edible, esculent, nibbleable, stomachable, palatable
Antonyms: inesculent, incomestible, indigestible, inedible, nonedible, unconsumable, uneatable
adj
“Good enough to eat”; attractive.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: figuratively, formal
No example sentence was provided for this meaning.
Synonyms: attractive, beauteous, beautifool, beautiful, beautimous, bona vardering, bonnie, breathtaking, captivating, comely, cute, divine, esculent, exquisite, fair, fetching, fine-looking, good-looking, good enough to eat, handsome, heavenly, knockout, lovely, lovesome, lustrious, nice, nice-looking, personable, pretty, prettiful, pulchritudinous, shapely, sheen, sightly, stunning, swanlike, well-favoured, winsome, bad, beat, butters, butt-ugly, clapped, coyote ugly, deform, fuckfaced, fugly, hideous, homely, like the back end of a bus, plug-ugly, repulsive, ugly, ugly as sin, unattractive, uncomely, unsightly, unpretty
Antonyms: none provided
noun
Something edible, especially a vegetable; a comestible.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: formal
No example sentence was provided for this meaning.
Synonyms: eatable, edible, victual, aliment, bait, belly-timber, chow, comestibles, cuisine, eatables, eats, edibles, feed, fodder, foodstuffs, food, grub, kai, meals, meat, munchable, nibbles, nosebag, nosh, nourishment, om nom nom, provender, provisions, rations, scran, stodge, sustenance, tiffin, tucker, tuck, viands, victuals, vittles
Antonyms: none provided
noun
An edible mushroom.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: formal, specifically
Topics: biology, mycology, natural-sciences
No example sentence was provided for this meaning.
Synonyms: none provided
Antonyms: none provided
History
Learned borrowing from Latin ēsculentus (“fit for eating, eatable, edible; good to eat, delicious; nourishing; full of food”) + English -ent (suffix forming adjectives with the sense of causing, doing, or promoting a certain action). Ēsculentus is derived from ēsca (“food; dish prepared for the table; bait”) (ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *h1ed- (“to eat”)) + -ulentus (suffix meaning ‘abounding in, full of’ forming adjectives).
Across languages
8 source translations are retained for this English entry.
