Meaning & use
digestible
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Meanings
adjectivecomparable
Easy for the body to break down in the stomach and absorb.
Grammar: Can follow be or come before a noun: easily digestible food, a digestible meal.
Patterns
- easily digestible
- digestible for someone
Plain rice is easily digestible, so doctors suggest it after an upset stomach.
Babies need soft, digestible foods.
Cooked vegetables are more digestible than raw ones for some people.
adjectivecomparablefigurative
Presented clearly and in small enough pieces to be easy to understand.
Grammar: Used figuratively for information, reports or ideas: digestible summaries.
Patterns
- digestible format
- digestible chunks
The report was long, so she wrote a digestible summary.
The teacher broke the topic into digestible chunks.
News apps offer short, digestible stories for commuters.
Word forms
| comparative | more digestible |
|---|---|
| superlative | most digestible |
Common combinations
- easily digestible
- Soup is an easily digestible meal when you feel ill.
- digestible form
- The data was presented in digestible form.
- digestible chunks
- Break the lecture into digestible chunks.
- highly digestible
- Eggs are a highly digestible source of protein.
- more digestible
- The second chapter is more digestible than the first.
Synonyms and how they differ
- easy to digest
- Easy to digest means the same for food, but is a phrase, and digestible is the single word that also works for ideas.
- accessible
- Accessible stresses that something is easy to reach or understand, while digestible suggests small, tidy portions.
- palatable
- Palatable says something is pleasant enough to accept, while digestible says it is easy to take in.
- simple
- Simple only says something is not complicated, whereas digestible suggests complex material made manageable.
Opposites
Word family
- digest verb
- to break down food, or to absorb information
- digestion noun
- the process of breaking down food
- digestibility noun
- how easily something can be digested
- indigestible adjective
- hard to digest
- digestive adjective
- relating to digestion
Commonly confused: digestible or edible? digestible or digestive?
digestible vs edible
Edible means safe to eat, while digestible means the body can break it down comfortably.
digestible vs digestive
Digestive describes things related to digestion, such as the digestive system; digestible describes what can be digested.
Practice
The author turned a dense study into a ___ article for ordinary readers.
Choose one answer.
Digestible fits the figurative sense of easy to understand. Indigestible means the opposite, edible is about food, and digestive refers to digestion.
Make it your own
Write a sentence using “digestible”, then check it and compare it with the examples above.