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inedible

[in-ed-uh-buhl]

Origin

adjective

not edible; unfit to be eaten.

Origin:
1815–25; in-³ + edible

Related forms

in·ed·i·bil·i·ty, noun

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inedible (ɪnˈɛdɪb^əl)

—*adj*
	not fit to be eaten; uneatable

inedi'bility

—n

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inedible

"unfit to eat," 1822, from in- "not" + edible (see eat).

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"While you're playing cards with a regular guy or having a bite to eat with him, he seems a peaceable, good-humoured and not entirely dense person. But just begin a conversation with him about something inedible, politics or science, for instance, and he ends up in a deadend or starts in on such an obtuse and base philosophy that you can only wave your hand and leave."

-Anton Pavlovich Chekhov

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