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indigestive

American  
[in-di-jes-tiv, -dahy-] / ˌɪn dɪˈdʒɛs tɪv, -daɪ- /

adjective

  1. accompanied by or suffering from indigestion; dyspeptic.


indigestive British  
/ ˌɪndɪˈdʒɛstɪv /

adjective

  1. relating to or suffering from indigestion; dyspeptic

"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

Etymology

Origin of indigestive

First recorded in 1625–35; in- 3 + digestive

Example Sentences

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He expresses adoration for his wife with indigestive grunts and coddles his daughter by saying "Such a very red little rose."

From Time Magazine Archive

She was the soft, damp, fat, sighing, indigestive, clinging, melancholy, depressingly hopeful kind.

From Main Street by Sinclair Lewis

There were two soups, three fishes, dozens of entrées, three or four joints—the mere memory of it is indigestive.

From Punch, or the London Charivari, Volume 100, June 13, 1891 by Various

Digestive, indigestive torpor is also torpor of the sense of responsibility.

From The No Breakfast Plan and the Fasting-Cure by Edward Hooker Dewey

It is found that the stomach has the power of gradually accommodating indigestive powers to the food it habitually receives.

From American Woman's Home by Catharine Esther Beecher

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