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un-eatable

un-eatable is the alternative form of uneatable.

Meaning of uneatable

Adjective

uneatable (comparative more uneatable, superlative most uneatable)

  1. Not eatable; not fit for eating.
    • At six supper arrived, and turned out to be quite uneatable; the bread, tough enough in the morning (it had been cut into slices on Saturday night), was now as hard as ship’s biscuit.1933 January 9, George Orwell [pseudonym; Eric Arthur Blair], chapter XXXV, in Down and Out in Paris and London, London: Victor Gollancz […], →OCLC, page 269
    Synonyms:
    inedible, unedible

Forms of un-eatable

comparativemore un-eatable
superlativemost un-eatable

Questions about un-eatable

What is un-eatable the alternative form of?
Un-eatable is the alternative form of uneatable.

Words near un-eatable in the dictionary

  1. un-deadstocks
  2. un-die
  3. un-dirty
  4. un-dolphin-like
  5. un-eat
  6. un-eatable
  7. un-eaten
  8. un-eating
  9. un-eats
  10. un-Einsteinian
  11. un-English

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Adapted from Wiktionary: un-eatable (page history and authors); uneatable (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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