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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

Example Sentences

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But how does one make the enormously complex subject of federal healthcare policy into a digestible exhibit?

From The Wall Street Journal • Jun. 17, 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

Galleries are also closing and downsizing, and films that don’t oblige the content farm aren’t solicited as readily as influencer-helmed or easily digestible projects that can be played as background noise for scrolling.

From Los Angeles Times • Mar. 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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