Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- adjective Difficult or impossible to digest.
from The Century Dictionary.
- Not digestible physically; unassimilable, as food.
- Not digestible mentally; not to be assimilated by the mind; not to be stomached or brooked; incomprehensible or unendurable: as, an indigestible statement; an indigestible affront.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- adjective Not digestible; not readily soluble in the digestive juices; not easily convertible into products fitted for absorption.
- adjective Not digestible in the mind; distressful; intolerable.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- adjective Difficult or impossible to
digest . - adjective by extension Difficult to
accept ;unpalatable .
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- adjective digested with difficulty
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Examples
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And his opinions were processed the same way, in indigestible chunks.
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And his opinions were processed the same way, in indigestible chunks.
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This is because they contain indigestible sugars that will be broken down by intestinal bacteria to produce gases such as carbon dioxide, hydrogen sulphide and methane.
Archive 2007-02-01 Steve Carper 2007
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This is because they contain indigestible sugars that will be broken down by intestinal bacteria to produce gases such as carbon dioxide, hydrogen sulphide and methane.
Gas Caused by More Than Dairy Steve Carper 2007
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It contains more fat, mineral matter and cellulose (cellulose is often called indigestible fibre, as it resists the solvent action of the digestive juices, and is of no value as a nutrient), and less proteid and digestible carbohydrates.
Public School Domestic Science Adelaide Hoodless 1884
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Cheese is popularly termed indigestible, and rice digestible, when in reality the nutrients of cheese are more completely although more slowly digested than those of rice.
Human Foods and Their Nutritive Value Harry Snyder
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The facts which I have adduced clearly prove that the straws of the cereals possess a far higher nutritive power than is commonly ascribed to them; that when properly harvested they contain from 20 to 40 per cent. of undoubted nutriment; and lastly, that it is highly probable that their so-called indigestible woody fibre is to a great extent assimilable.
The Stock-Feeder's Manual the chemistry of food in relation to the breeding and feeding of live stock Charles Alexander Cameron 1875
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It must be borne in mind, too, that I take no account of the 30 per cent. of the so-called indigestible woody fibre which straw contains, and which, I believe, is partly assimilable under ordinary circumstances, and could be rendered nearly altogether digestible by proper treatment; on the other hand, I have assumed that the woody fibre of the oil-cake is completely digestible, although
The Stock-Feeder's Manual the chemistry of food in relation to the breeding and feeding of live stock Charles Alexander Cameron 1875
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"I think," Kaliinin went on, "that there's a charge pattern to the kind of indigestible residue left by the bacteria the white cell is designed to engulf and that that alone would be a trigger for ejection."
Destination Brain Asimov, Isaac 1987
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Touchingly, in his own lecture on the Variations, Schoenberg cites Brahms's F major Cello Sonata and Violin Concerto as pieces that were thought of as "indigestible" and
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