eatable

[ ee-tuh-buhl ]

adjective

1. edible.

noun

1. Usually eatables. articles of food.

eatable

/ ˈiːtəbəl /

adjective

1. fit or suitable for eating; edible

Other Words From

• non·eata·ble adjective
• un·eata·ble adjective

Word History and Origins

Origin of eatable¹

First recorded in 1475–85; eat + -able

Example Sentences

It is, quite literally, an eatable chocolate chip cookie shot glass filled with milk.

From The Daily Beast

You must be greatly in want of some refreshment, for the wretched posadas on the road cannot have offered you any thing eatable.

From Project Gutenberg

I'm not enamored of a straight meat diet as a rule, but that evening I was in no mood to carp at anything half-way eatable.

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In fact, when Henry had thinned out half a row he had quite a little pile of eatable carrots, each as large as his thumb.

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This was no longer the case at my second visit to Rio, and every thing eatable was much improved.

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Piso says, that the flesh of the six banded is not eatable; and Nieremberg affirms, that it is unwholesome and pernicious.

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