digestible
Americanadjective
adjective
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Etymology
Origin of digestible
1350–1400; Middle English < Late Latin dīgestibilis < Latin dīgest ( us ) ( see digest) + -ibilis -ible
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I start with something that’s catchy and easily digestible, and then mix it with sounds that feel uncomfortable.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 29, 2026
But the particularities of the sport outside its elegant, digestible, quadrennial national context were always too byzantine to wrap my head around.
From Slate ● Aug. 28, 2026
He pushed for language that would make the “wedges” concepts more digestible.
From Salon ● Jun. 26, 2026
"They become kind of a bioconversion machine where they can remove some of those complicated molecules that the human gut cannot digest and convert them into more digestible substances."
From BBC ● Jun. 4, 2026
Maize lacks digestible niacin, the amino acids lysine and tryptophan, necessary to make proteins and diets with too much maize can lead to protein deficiency and pellagra, a disease caused by lack of niacin.
From "1491" by Charles C. Mann
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