Definition of indigestible in English:
indigestible
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adjective
1(of food) difficult or impossible to digest.
‘haute cuisine was largely indigestible to the majority’- ‘This for me was very refreshing considering I had indigestible food for breakfast.’
- ‘One of the papers in Science reveals the genetics of a dominant gut bug that serves humans well by breaking down otherwise indigestible food.’
- ‘Occasionally, cats eat grass in order to clear their stomach of indigestible food, like bones, fur, and feathers.’
- ‘Right now I am trapped in a cell which is beyond filthiness with indigestible food.’
- ‘In Asia it is well known that raw and unfermented soy beans are indigestible.’
- ‘Soaking beans not only cuts down on the cooking time (preserving nutrients) but it helps break down the indigestible sugars that can cause gas.’
- ‘But because most beans are indigestible unless cooked at high temperatures, a raw-food diet contains few of them.’
- ‘Ice cream is particularly indigestible since it contains cold fat.’
- ‘Foods that are ordinarily indigestible or even allergenic to deer may become daily menu items in situations of severe stress from weather or scarcity of other food.’
- ‘Fiber, which is the indigestible part of fruits, vegetables and whole-grain foods, helps you achieve flat abs for three reasons.’
- ‘I found the heavy protein practically indigestible.’
- ‘It's the indigestible crystalline starch apparently.’
- ‘Sperm whales also produce ambergris, probably from waste coalescing around indigestible substances in the intestinal tract.’
- ‘However, indigestible cellulose can be converted into sugars for use as food or as nutrients to grow yeasts, fungi, or plant cell cultures.’
- ‘Technically, probiotics are indigestible starches that good bacteria feast on.’
- ‘Phytase is an enzyme that breaks down phytate so that some of the previously indigestible phosphorus in feed can be digested.’
- ‘The pellets are the indigestible portions of the heron's food.’
- ‘Toasted cheese was even more indigestible and apt to cause nightmares.’
- ‘It is a myth that goats will eat anything, however indigestible.’
- ‘With only 44p spent per student lunch, pupils were too often dining on fatty, salty, indigestible rubbish.’
indigestible, starchy, filling, heavy, solid, substantial, lumpy, leaden2Too complex or awkward to read or understand easily.
‘a turgid and indigestible book’- ‘He serves up vast helpings of indigestible fact.’
- ‘He kept up to date by reading the papers and gorging on TV, digesting the indigestible.’
- ‘Far too many words for comfort, quite indiscriminately absorbed, and now forming a stodgy, indigestible mass in my short-term memory.’
- ‘The truth is perfectly clear and almost perfectly indigestible.’
- ‘A written constitution would replace the present mass of verbose and indigestible devolution legislation.’
Pronunciation
Origin
Late 15th century via French from late Latin indigestibilis, from in- ‘not’ + digestibilis (see digestible).
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