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eatable

[ ee-tuh-buh l ]

/ ˈi tə bəl /

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adjective

edible.

noun

Usually eatables. articles of food.

Origin of eatable

First recorded in 1475–85; eat + -able

OTHER WORDS FROM eatable

non·eat·a·ble, adjective un·eat·a·ble, adjective

Words nearby eatable

eat someone up, eat someone's ass out, eat someone's lunch, eat up, eat, drink, and be merry, for tomorrow we die, eatable, eatables, eatage, eaten, eatery, eath

Example sentences from the Web for eatable

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

Chef Dominique Ansel Discusses His Latest Mouthwatering Creation, the Milk & Cookie Shot, at SXSW |Marlow Stern |March 10, 2014 |DAILY BEAST
In familiar language, the term is applied to any product of a plant containing the seed, more especially those that are eatable.

Cooley's Cyclopdia of Practical Receipts and Collateral Information in the Arts, Manufactures, Professions, and Trades..., Sixth Edition, Volume I |Arnold Cooley
Being prepared in a civilized fashion, I suppose, the officers found them eatable.

The Log of a Sea-Waif |Frank T. Bullen
How they can use me I can't imagine, as I am not eatable, and they do not need fires, yet without me they can not live.

Harper's Young People, March 22, 1881 |Various

He ate like a dog whatever he could get that was eatable, without particularly thinking of what it consisted.

Pelle the Conqueror, Complete |Martin Anderson Nexo
The adjective force of the infinitive comes out clearly in nothing to eat, where to eat is practically synonymous with eatable.

An Advanced English Grammar with Exercises |George Lyman Kittredge

British Dictionary definitions for eatable

eatable

/ (ˈiːtəbəl) /

adjective

fit or suitable for eating; edible