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digestible

American  
[dih-jes-tuh-buhl, dahy-] / dɪˈdʒɛs tə bəl, daɪ- /

adjective

  1. capable of being digested; readily digested.


digestible British  
/ dɪˈdʒɛstəbəl, daɪ- /

adjective

  1. capable of being digested or easy to digest

"Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged" 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012

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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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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

Ms. Watson does criticize the AI models now available for offering digestible but sometimes off-the-mark answers to our various small-beer queries.

From The Wall Street Journal Aug. 4, 2026

Together they helped make wonky scientific ideas more digestible for popular consumption.

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

She kissed him back, though for today all she cared was that the calculations laid before her like a nice cooked lunch should turn out digestible.

From "Typical American" by Gish Jen

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