undigested
/ʌndɪˈdʒɛstɪd
/ /ʌndʌɪˈdʒɛstɪd/adjective
1(Of food) not digested: a proportion of the oats tend to pass undigested through the horse...
- All that puts me off being an owl is the way they cough up their undigested food - then again, we humans have some pretty bad habits too.
- A hospital found his innards to contain two balls of undigested food, with the sprouts the most likely culprit.
- At the same time, the inflammation causes gaps to open between the mucosal cells, allowing the wholesale penetration of toxins, undigested food particles and other debris into the bloodstream.
1.1(Of information, facts, or ideas) not having been properly assessed, considered, or understood: much undigested and conflicting intelligence was passed straight to the Chief Executive...
- The characters depict an urbanised animal world, set in the age of globalisation, where unlimited, undigested information and superficial multiculturalism are rampant.
- Four years earlier Bohr had left Manchester full of exciting but undigested ideas about the atom.
- Quite simply, the translators/commentators have included too many undigested facts without substantive analysis and relevant synthesis.
