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

"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

What drove you to make “After the Hunt” less easily digestible?

From Salon

“The Declaration’s Journey” is an ambitious show, and its curators and designers have done a canny, mostly successful job of making its dense history digestible.

From The Wall Street Journal

Still, the deal would be easily digestible for J&J, which is worth close to $460 billion.

From The Wall Street Journal