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