indigestible

English

Etymology

Etymology tree

Proto-Indo-European *né

Proto-Indo-European *n̥-

Proto-Italic *ən-

Latin in-bor.

Middle English in-

English in-

English digestible

English indigestible

From in- + digestible.

Adjective

indigestible (comparative more indigestible, superlative most indigestible)

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

Derived terms

• indigestibleness
• indigestibly

Translations

difficult or impossible to digest

• Bulgarian: трудно смилаем (trudno smilaem)
• Catalan: indigest (ca), indigerible
• Czech: nestravitelný (cs)
• Dutch: onverteerbaar (nl)
• Esperanto: nedigestebla
• Finnish: sulamaton (fi), vaikea sulattaa, vaikeasti sulatettava
• French: indigeste (fr)
• Galician: indixesto, indixerible (gl), indixeríbel (gl)
• German: unverdaulich (de)
• Hungarian: emészthetetlen (hu)
• Latin: indigestibilis
• Polish: niestrawny (pl), ciężki (pl)
• Spanish: indigesto (es), indigerible (es)
• Turkish:

  Ottoman Turkish: آغر (ağır)

Noun

indigestible (plural indigestibles)

1. Anything that is difficult to digest.
   • 1872, James Parton, The Life of Horace Greeley:

     "Take a cruller, any way," said she, handing him a cake-basket containing a dozen or so of those unspeakable, Dutch indigestibles.

Further reading

• “indigestible”, in OneLook Dictionary Search.

Spanish

Adjective

indigestible m or f (masculine and feminine plural indigestibles)

1. (obsolete) indigestible

   Synonym: indigerible

Further reading

• “indigestible”, 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