Meanings
- uncountableAn undesirable, lackluster, and artificial foodstuff, as a substitute for real meat.
“Today's selection is Superaide with a choice of soylent yellow or soylent red,” the servodroid said.
2008, Shane Berryhill, Chance Fortune and the Outlaws, New York: Starscape, published 2011, chapter 82 more examples
The soylent steaks were sitting like lead in his stomach and twice he had to go back to the dark and miserable toilet in the rear of the building.
1966, Harry Harrison, Make Room! Make Room!, published 1973, →ISBN, →OL, page 26It is decided that the product will be composed of three elements — soylent green, red, and blue. Each pound of the final product must contain at least 2000 calories of energy and 1000 units of vitamins.
1976, Roger C. Pfaffenberger, Mathematical Programming for Economics and Business, Ames: Iowa State University Press, →ISBN, →LCCN
Origin
Blend of soy + lentil, coined in Harry Harrison's 1966 Make Room! Make Room!
Full word history & related roots →Translations
German Veggiefleisch, Fleischersatz
- Veggiefleischundesirable artificial foodstuff
- Fleischersatzundesirable artificial foodstuff
Polish jedzenie niewiadomego pochodzenia
- jedzenie niewiadomego pochodzeniaundesirable artificial foodstuff
Russian сойлент
- сойлент (sojlent)undesirable artificial foodstuff
Spanish comidilla
- comidillaundesirable artificial foodstuff
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Cite this entry
soylent. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 3, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/soylent
“soylent.” WatkinsX Dictionary, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/soylent. Accessed November 3, 2026.
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