Used in a Sentence

inedible

Definitions, parts of speech, synonyms, and sentence examples for inedible.

Editorial note

It's like eating at a restaurant and complaining, after you've had 6 courses, that the food is inedible and you don't want to pay.

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Definitions2
Parts of speech2

Quick take

Anything inedible; that which is not a foodstuff.

Meaning at a glance

The clearest senses and uses of inedible gathered in one view.

noun

Anything inedible; that which is not a foodstuff.

adjective

not edible; not appropriate, worthy, or safe to eat

Definitions

Core meanings and parts of speech for inedible.

adjective

not edible; not appropriate, worthy, or safe to eat

Example sentences

1

It's like eating at a restaurant and complaining, after you've had 6 courses, that the food is inedible and you don't want to pay.

2

It is unknown whether the berry is edible/inedible, so it makes sense that we consider both.

3

Soy sauce is the most processed outcome of this trail, a necessary thing to make inedible soy beans human consumable.

4

Most plants bear some kind of fruit and most of them are inedible to humans.

5

Much of what we feed to animals - corncobs and wheat hulls, for example - is inedible to humans.

6

If McDonald's serves me a burger that is inedible, I know about it immediately and can stop patronizing McD's.

7

To get the things, you have to pick them early and check every day and add sugar to whatever you're cooking or they're inedible.

8

Selective breeding has allowed humans to transform wolves into Chihuahuas, an inedible wild grass called Teosinte into Corn (Maize), and many other drastic modifications.

9

Really unappetizing and inedible, unless they've changed the recipe since then.

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Animals are a way of turning inedible things into edible things.

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Goats are very commonly used to convert inedible wild plants into human ingestible calories in impoverished regions who do not have modern factory farming infrastructure.

12

Saying that Bayesians also care about things that did not happen because one of edible/inedible is something that did not happen is a bad comparison.

Quote examples

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"Put down" usually means euthanasia and that cannot be done or the meat is inedible; instead cattle around here are shot in the head with a rifle at point blank range by the butcher.

Frequently asked questions

Short answers drawn from the clearest meanings and examples for this word.

How do you use inedible in a sentence?

It's like eating at a restaurant and complaining, after you've had 6 courses, that the food is inedible and you don't want to pay.

What does inedible mean?

Anything inedible; that which is not a foodstuff.

What part of speech is inedible?

inedible is commonly used as noun, adjective.