digestible

/di'dʤestəbl/

Thân thiện

This soup is easily digestible for young children.

Definition

1. Adjective:
   • Capable of being digested: Describes food or information that can be broken down and absorbed by the body or mind without difficulty.
   • Easily understood or accepted: Refers to content, ideas, or data that are presented in a clear, simple, and manageable way.

Usage

• Use "digestible" to describe food that is easy for the stomach to process.
• Use "digestible" figuratively to describe complex information that has been simplified for easier understanding.

Examples

• Literal (Food):
  • Steamed vegetables are more digestible than fried ones.
  • The doctor recommended a diet of bland, easily digestible foods.
• Figurative (Information):
  • The professor presented the complex theory in small, digestible chunks.
  • This book breaks down the legal process into digestible sections.

Advanced Usage

• "Easily digestible": A common collocation emphasizing that something is very easy to process or understand.
  • The report was full of easily digestible infographics.
• "Readily digestible": Suggests something is quickly and effortlessly absorbed or comprehended.
  • The software provides data in a readily digestible format.

Variants and Related Words

• Digestibility (n): The quality of being digestible.
  • The digestibility of this protein source is very high.
• Indigestible (adj): The opposite; not able to be digested or understood.
  • The meal was heavy and indigestible.

Synonyms

• Assimilable: Capable of being absorbed and integrated.
• Palatable: Acceptable to the mind or taste; often used figuratively like "digestible".
• Comprehensible: Able to be understood.

Antonyms

• Indigestible: Not easily digested or understood.
• Incomprehensible: Impossible to understand.

Học thuật

Adjective

1. capable of being converted into assimilable condition in the alimentary canal