digestible

American  

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

adjective

1. capable of being digested; readily digested.

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digestible British  

/ dɪˈdʒɛstəbəl, daɪ- /

adjective

1. capable of being digested or easy to digest

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Other Word Forms

• digestibility noun
• digestibly adverb
• nondigestibility noun
• nondigestible adjective
• nondigestibleness noun
• nondigestibly adverb

Etymology

Origin of digestible

1350–1400; Middle English < Late Latin dīgestibilis < Latin dīgest ( us ) ( digest ) + -ibilis -ible

Example Sentences

Warm, savory, digestible, familiar—I reach for this most mornings, appetite or no.

From Salon

“Tariffs have often been used as a negotiating tool and we’ve ultimately settled at effective tariff rates that are more digestible by the companies that have to pay them,” he noted.

From MarketWatch

Our critic called it a “handsome, scholarly exhibition” whose “curators and designers have done a canny, mostly successful job of making its dense history digestible.”

From The Wall Street Journal

"If we better understand the underlying processes," says Luo, "we can cook tastier and more digestible dishes, so to speak, because then we'll know exactly which spices, in which amounts, make the sauce especially tasty."

From Science Daily

To make the resulting flour safe and digestible for humans, the outer husks and certain phenolic compounds must first be removed.

From Science Daily