indigestible

• POS: Adjective
• HYPHEN: in=di=gest=i=ble

CIDE DICTIONARY

indigestible, a. [L. indigestibilis: cf. F. indigestible. See In- not, and Digest.].

•  Not digestible; not readily soluble in the digestive juices; not easily convertible into products fitted for absorption.  [1913 Webster]
•  Not digestible in the mind; distressful; intolerable; as, an indigestible simile.  T. Warton.

OXFORD DICTIONARY

indigestible, adj.
1 difficult or impossible to digest.
2 too complex or awkward to read or comprehend easily.

Derivative

indigestibility n. indigestibly adv.

Etymology

F indigestible or LL indigestibilis (as IN-(1), DIGEST)

ROGET THESAURUS

indigestible

Insalubrity

N insalubrity, unhealthiness, nonnaturals, plague spot, malaria, death in the pot, contagion, toxicity, insalubrious, unhealthy, unwholesome, noxious, noisome, morbific, morbiferous, mephitic, septic, azotic, deleterious, pestilent, pestiferous, pestilential, virulent, venomous, envenomed, poisonous, toxic, toxiferous, teratogenic, narcotic, contagious, infectious, catching, taking, epidemic, zymotic, epizootic, innutritious, indigestible, ungenial, uncongenial, deadly.