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indigestible

adj · noun · 4 senses · updated from the 2026-07-25 local source snapshot

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1

adj

Meaning 1

Difficult or impossible to digest.

Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract

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2

adj

Meaning 2

Difficult to accept; unpalatable.

Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract

Usage: broadly

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3

noun

Meaning 3

Anything that is difficult to digest.

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4

adjective

Meaning 4

digested with difficulty

Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0

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Antonyms: digestible

History

Etymology

Etymology tree Proto-Indo-European *né Proto-Indo-European *n̥- Proto-Italic *n̥- Latin in-bor. Middle English in- English in- English digestible English indigestible From in- + digestible.

Across languages

Translations

21 source translations are retained for this English entry.

  • Bulgarian: трудно смилаем (trudno smilaem) — difficult or impossible to digest
  • Catalan: indigest — difficult or impossible to digest
  • Catalan: indigerible — difficult or impossible to digest
  • Czech: nestravitelný — difficult or impossible to digest
  • Dutch: onverteerbaar — difficult or impossible to digest
  • Esperanto: nedigestebla — difficult or impossible to digest
  • Finnish: sulamaton — difficult or impossible to digest
  • Finnish: vaikea sulattaa — difficult or impossible to digest
  • Finnish: vaikeasti sulatettava — difficult or impossible to digest
  • French: indigeste — difficult or impossible to digest
  • Galician: indixesto — difficult or impossible to digest
  • Galician: indixerible — difficult or impossible to digest
  • Galician: indixeríbel — difficult or impossible to digest
  • German: unverdaulich — difficult or impossible to digest
  • Hungarian: emészthetetlen — difficult or impossible to digest
  • Latin: indigestibilis — difficult or impossible to digest
  • Polish: niestrawny — difficult or impossible to digest
  • Polish: ciężki — difficult or impossible to digest
  • Spanish: indigesto — difficult or impossible to digest
  • Spanish: indigerible — difficult or impossible to digest
  • Ottoman Turkish: آغر (ağır) — difficult or impossible to digest