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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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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

He pushed for language that would make the “wedges” concepts more digestible.

From Salon Jun. 26, 2026

His videos are bite-sized and have the professional look of being made in a podcast studio, and the other posts have simple graphics and text broken up for easily digestible carousels.

From Slate Jun. 8, 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

And he’s trying to distill all of these ideas into easily digestible chunks—science meets pop science.

From "A Deadly Wandering: A Mystery, a Landmark Investigation, and the Astonishing Science of Attention in the Digital Age" by Matt Richtel

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