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
Example Sentences
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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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