digestible

English

Etymology

From Old French digestible, equivalent to digest +‎ -ible.

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA^(key): /daɪˈdʒɛstəbəɫ/

• Audio (US):

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Adjective

digestible (not comparable)

1. Capable of being digested.

Synonyms

• bite-sized

Antonyms

• indigestible

Derived terms

• digestibility
• digestibleness
• digestibly
• nondigestible
• total digestible nutrients
• undigestible

Translations

capable of being digested

• Bulgarian: смилаем (smilaem)
• Catalan: digerible
• Czech: stravitelný (cs)
• Dutch: verteerbaar (nl)
• Finnish: sulava (fi)
• French: digestible (fr)
• German: verdaulich (de)
• Hungarian: emészthető (hu)
• Italian: assimilabile (it), digeribile (it)
• Macedonian: сварлив (svarliv)
• Manx: yn-lheie
• Polish: strawny, przyswajalny (pl)
• Portuguese: digerível, disgestível
• Romanian: digerabil (ro) m or n, digestibil (ro)
• Russian: удобовари́мый (ru) (udobovarímyj)
• Scottish Gaelic: meirbheach
• Serbo-Croatian:

  Cyrillic: проба̀вљив

  Latin: probàvljiv (sh)

• Volapük: dicetovik (vo)

Further reading

• “digestible”, in OneLook Dictionary Search.

French

Etymology

Learned borrowing from Late Latin digestibilis.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /di.ʒɛs.tibl/

• Audio (France (Vosges)):

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Adjective

digestible (plural digestibles)

1. digestible

   Synonym: digeste

Derived terms

• digestibilité

Related terms

• digérer
• digestion

Further reading

• “digestible”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012

Spanish

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /dixesˈtible/ [d̪i.xesˈt̪i.β̞le]
• Rhymes: -ible
• Syllabification: di‧ges‧ti‧ble

Adjective

digestible m or f (masculine and feminine plural digestibles)

1. digestible

   Synonym: digerible

Derived terms

• digestibilidad

Further reading

• “digestible”, in Diccionario de la lengua española [Dictionary of the Spanish Language] (in Spanish), online version 23.8.1, Royal Spanish Academy [Spanish: Real Academia Española], 15 December 2025