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eat·a·ble

 (ē′tə-bəl)
adj.
Fit to be eaten; edible: an eatable meal.
n.
1. Something fit to be eaten.
2. eatables Food.
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eatable

(ˈiːtəbəl)
adj
fit or suitable for eating; edible
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eat•a•ble

(ˈi tə bəl)

adj.
1. edible.
n.
2. Usu., eatables. articles of food.
[1475–85]
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ThesaurusAntonymsRelated WordsSynonymsLegend:
Noun1.eatable - any substance that can be used as foodeatable - any substance that can be used as food
food, nutrient - any substance that can be metabolized by an animal to give energy and build tissue
tuck - eatables (especially sweets)
Adj.1.eatable - suitable for use as food
digestible - capable of being converted into assimilable condition in the alimentary canal
palatable, toothsome - acceptable to the taste or mind; "palatable food"; "a palatable solution to the problem"
tender - easy to cut or chew; "tender beef"
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eatable

adjective
Fit to be eaten:
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Translations
أطْعِمَه، مأْكولاتصالِح لِلأْكل
madvarerspiselig
ennivaló
æturmatvæli
yenebiliryiyecek

eatable

[ˈiːtəbl] ADJ (= fit to eat) → comible, pasable; (= edible) → comestible
Collins Spanish Dictionary - Complete and Unabridged 8th Edition 2005 © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1971, 1988 © HarperCollins Publishers 1992, 1993, 1996, 1997, 2000, 2003, 2005

eatable

[ˈiːtəbəl] adj (= palatable) → mangeable (= safe to eat) → comestible
Collins English/French Electronic Resource. © HarperCollins Publishers 2005

eatable

Collins German Dictionary – Complete and Unabridged 7th Edition 2005. © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1980 © HarperCollins Publishers 1991, 1997, 1999, 2004, 2005, 2007

eatable

[ˈiːtəbl] adj (fit to eat) → mangiabile; (safe to eat) → commestibile
Collins Italian Dictionary 1st Edition © HarperCollins Publishers 1995

eat

(iːt) past tense ate (et eit; (American) eit) : past participle ˈeaten verb
to (chew and) swallow; to take food. They are forbidden to eat meat; They ate up all the cakes; We must eat to live.
ˈeatable (negative uneatable) adjective
fit to be eaten. The meal was scarcely eatable.
noun
(in plural) food. Cover all eatables to keep mice away.
eat into
to destroy or waste gradually. Acid eats into metal; The school fees have eaten into our savings.
eat one's words
to admit humbly that one was mistaken in saying something. I'll make him eat his words!
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References in classic literature ?
"Little girl, to be frank with you, we are all eatables. Everything in Bunbury is eatable to ravenous human creatures like you.
Chance rewarded our search for eatable vegetables, and one of the most useful products of the tropical zones furnished us with precious food that we missed on board.
He would have known, at the first mouthful, that the air was not eatable, and must have given up the ghost in despair.
They have such an eatable look that the most self-denying stranger can hardly keep his hands off.
By that time I was very hungry, but after some searching I came upon some eatable herbs, and a spring of clear water, and much refreshed I set out to explore the island.
In all other ways we were in a situation not only agreeable but merry; having ousted the officers from their own cabin, and having at command all the drink in the ship -- both wine and spirits -- and all the dainty part of what was eatable, such as the pickles and the fine sort of bread.
The first house we entered, after a little difficulty with the window, was a small semi-detached villa, and I found nothing eatable left in the place but some mouldy cheese.
My stomach used to quail within me, in those times, when the tureen was taken off and the inevitable gravy-soup smell renewed its daily acquaintance with my nostrils, and warned me of the persistent eatable formalities that were certain to follow.
She sat down at the writing-table, and made out a list of eatable productions in the animal and vegetable world, in which every other word was underlined two or three times over.
There being nothing eatable within his reach, Oliver replied in the affirmative.
She was being helpful in her own way, with an extraordinary black bonnet on her head, a good mile off by that time, trying to discover in the village shops a piece of eatable cake.
Breakfast-time came at last, and this morning the porridge was not burnt; the quality was eatable, the quantity small.