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Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
indigestible
adjective
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
▪ And we can speak up to tell them that bitter pills are indigestible.
▪ But it is buried in the indigestible and clumsy structure of Greig's play.
▪ By this process we reduce an indigestible amount of data into meaningful lumps.
▪ Gastric clearance of indigestible markers was significantly slower in patients with than in those without cardiovascular autonomic neuropathy.
▪ Many birds of prey regurgitate pellets which contain the indigestible remains of their prey, including much of the bone.
▪ Some of them feel a need to defend this by writing indigestible, difficult to understand books that are incoherent.
▪ There must be no indigestible row this evening.
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Indigestible

Indigestible \In`di*gest"i*ble\, a. [L. indigestibilis: cf. F. indigestible. See In- not, and Digest.]

  1. Not digestible; not readily soluble in the digestive juices; not easily convertible into products fitted for absorption.

  2. Not digestible in the mind; distressful; intolerable; as, an indigestible simile.
    --T. Warton. -- In`di*gest"i*ble*ness, n. -- In`di*gest"i*bly, adv.

Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
indigestible

late 15c., from in- (1) "not, opposite of" + digestible; or else from Late Latin indigestibilis. Related: Indigestibility.

Wiktionary
indigestible

a. 1 Difficult or impossible to digest. 2 (context by extension English) Difficult to accept; unpalatable.

WordNet
indigestible

adj. digested with difficulty [ant: digestible]

Usage examples of "indigestible".

She would have liked to say that no chimo or chimee ever ate enough chocolate at one time to coat their entire insides with an indigestible brown layer, which was what had killed the overfed experimental subjects, the dakcha and gobhow meat animals.

The torrent began in 1938, when in the United States alone about 35 million tons of these indigestible, unreclaimable, nonburnable, or otherwise indefeasible objects were discarded.

The sociologists try to attain it, but all they get is a mound of raw indigestible data.

I have observed the same leaf with the tentacles closely inflected over rather indigestible substances, such as chemically prepared casein, pouring forth acid secretion for eight successive days, and over bits of bone for ten successive days.

I am sure that they are indigestible, and that those who eat them undergo all the ills which the Revalenta Arabica is prepared to cure.

Of course, in these last few years he would just have thought that it was part of the bread, perhaps a trifle more indigestible than usual, but in those days he would have no excuse for not realizing that his Araminta was getting into touch with him.

For the most part, the local germs tended to leave the indigestible human interlopers alone, but there were a few indigenous diseases which were as stubbornly persistent in attacking them as shuttlesquitos or bearcats.

And after a rather indigestible luncheon of salt beef and turnips, he held court, buying ale for the tenants and cottars who had lingered after their transactions, and a few villagers who drifted in when their daily work was completed, to gawk at the strangers and hear such news as we carried.

It is considered that the laxative property resides in the saccharine juice of the fresh fruit and in the dried fruit is probably due to the indigestible seeds and skin.

When they got to the bottom, they would be excreted, no doubt, just as the indigestible part of their clothing and equipment had been.

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.