eatable
/ˈiːtəb(ə)l
/adjective
Fit to be consumed as food: eatable fruits...
- Several of the men left early to hunt, and the remainder of them shared bits of eatable fruits and beans found in the wild.
- We made rolls out of the grains and wrapped them in the eatable parts of the skunk cabbage we gathered.
- We're running out of arable land, drinkable water, eatable fish.
Synonyms
edible, palatable, digestible;
fit to eat, fit for consumption, fit to be consumed
rare comestible
noun (eatables)
Items of food: parcels of eatables and gifts...
- Foods and eatables should be covered and properly cooked before eating.
- I have seen lots of plays in the villages, where eatables are supplied to the audience.
- He would be showered with money, eatables and gifts after which he would be brought back home for circumcision in the presence of a big gathering.
- self-disgust
- self-doubt
- self-doubting
- self-dramatisation
- self-dramatization
- self-drive
- self-educated
- self-education
- self-effacement
- self-effacing
- self-effacingly
- self-employed
- self-employment
- self-enclosed
- self-esteem
- self-evaluation
- self-evidence
- self-evident
- self-evidently
- self-examination
- self-examining
- pay for itself
- pay freeze
- pay-gate
- pay grade