undigested

/'ʌndi'dʤestid/

Thân thiện

A child leaves a piece of undigested carrot on his dinner plate.

Definition

1. Adjective:
   • Not digested: Refers to food or other material that has not been broken down and processed by the digestive system.
   • Not mentally processed or assimilated: Refers to information, facts, or experiences that have been received but not properly thought over, understood, or organized in the mind.

Usage Examples

• Adjective (Physical):

  • The doctor found undigested food in the patient's stomach.
  • The owl regurgitates pellets containing the undigested parts of its prey.

• Adjective (Mental/Figurative):

  • The student presented an undigested list of dates without any analysis.
  • After the intense lecture, the information remained undigested in my mind.

Advanced Usage

• "to remain undigested": to stay in a raw, unprocessed state, either physically or mentally.
  • The complex theories remained undigested until I discussed them with my professor.
• Used to describe a chaotic or unassimilated collection of things.
  • The report was just an undigested mass of data, impossible to draw conclusions from.

Variants and Related Words

• Digest (verb): To break down food in the body; to mentally absorb and understand information.
  • It takes time to digest a heavy meal and complex ideas.
• Indigestible (adj.): Difficult or impossible to digest, either physically or mentally.
  • The meat was tough and indigestible. His writing style makes his ideas seem indigestible.

Synonyms

• Unassimilated: Not absorbed or integrated.
• Raw: In a natural, unprocessed state.
• Unprocessed: Not treated, analyzed, or organized.

Antonyms

• Digested: Broken down and absorbed; mentally processed and understood.
• Assimilated: Fully absorbed and integrated.

Học thuật

Adjective

1. not digested
   • undigested food
2. not thought over and arranged systematically in the mind; not absorbed or assimilated mentally
   • an undigested mass of facts gathered at random