INDIGESTIBLE

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does indigestible mean? 

• INDIGESTIBLE (adjective)
  The adjective INDIGESTIBLE has 1 sense:

1. digested with difficulty

  Familiarity information: INDIGESTIBLE used as an adjective is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• INDIGESTIBLE (adjective)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Digested with difficulty

Similar:

flatulent (generating excessive gas in the alimentary canal)

heavy (dense or inadequately leavened and hence likely to cause distress in the alimentary canal)

nondigestible (not digestible)

undigested (not digested)

stodgy (heavy and starchy and hard to digest)

Also:

inedible; uneatable (not suitable for food)

Antonym:

digestible (capable of being converted into assimilable condition in the alimentary canal)

Derivation:

indigestibility; indigestibleness (the property of being difficult to digest)

 Context examples 

In humans and other terrestrial animals, gut microbes play important roles in many aspects of health, including digestion, where they break down otherwise indigestible components.

(Whales may owe their efficient digestion to millions of tiny microbes, National Science Foundation)

A naturally occurring, indigestible and non-absorbable oligosaccharide produced by certain plants with prebiotic and potential anticancer activity.

(Inulin, NCI Thesaurus)

He could eat anything, no matter how loathsome or indigestible; and, once eaten, the juices of his stomach extracted the last least particle of nutriment; and his blood carried it to the farthest reaches of his body, building it into the toughest and stoutest of tissues.

(The Call of the Wild, by Jack London)

In its frozen state it was more like strips of galvanized iron, and when a dog wrestled it into his stomach it thawed into thin and innutritious leathery strings and into a mass of short hair, irritating and indigestible.

(The Call of the Wild, by Jack London)