uneatable

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adjective

Not eatable; not fit for eating.

Scrabble 11

Meanings

adjectiveuneatable (comparative more uneatable, superlative most uneatable)

comparative more uneatable · superlative most uneatable · alternative un-eatable

  1. Not eatable; not fit for eating.

    At six supper arrived, and turned out to be quite uneatable; the bread, tough enough in the morning (it had been cut into slices on Saturday night), was now as hard as ship’s biscuit.

    1933 January 9, George Orwell [pseudonym; Eric Arthur Blair], chapter XXXV, in Down and Out in Paris and London, London: Victor Gollancz […], →OCLC, page 269

    Synonyms: inedible, unedible

Synonyms & antonyms

adjectiveNot eatable; not fit for eating.

More synonyms by meaning

adjectivenot suitable for food

Synonym sets from Open English WordNet, CC BY 4.0.

Origin

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Chicago

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