Anzeige

Anzeige

View synonyms for eatable

eatable

[ ee-tuh-buhl ]

adjective



noun

  1. Usually eatables. articles of food.

eatable

/ ˈiːtəbəl /

adjective

  1. fit or suitable for eating; edible
“Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged” 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012


Mehr entdecken

Other Words From

  • non·eata·ble adjective
  • un·eata·ble adjective
Mehr entdecken

Word History and Origins

Origin of eatable1

First recorded in 1475–85; eat + -able
Mehr entdecken

Example Sentences

It is, quite literally, an eatable chocolate chip cookie shot glass filled with milk.

You must be greatly in want of some refreshment, for the wretched posadas on the road cannot have offered you any thing eatable.

I'm not enamored of a straight meat diet as a rule, but that evening I was in no mood to carp at anything half-way eatable.

In fact, when Henry had thinned out half a row he had quite a little pile of eatable carrots, each as large as his thumb.

This was no longer the case at my second visit to Rio, and every thing eatable was much improved.

Piso says, that the flesh of the six banded is not eatable; and Nieremberg affirms, that it is unwholesome and pernicious.

Anzeige

Anzeige

Anzeige

Anzeige


eateatables