I had failed to refrigerate the milk. It went so sour that it's inedible.
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Inedible
Synonyms for "inedible" (11 found)
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Adjective(3 words)
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Adjective(2 words)
Related words (5)
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5 entriesTranslations
37 translations across 24 languages.
Ancient Greek
1 entries- ἄβρωτος adj (not edible; not appropriate, worthy, or safe to eat)
Catalan
2 entries- immenjable adj (not edible; not appropriate, worthy, or safe to eat)
- incomestible adj (not edible; not appropriate, worthy, or safe to eat)
Chinese Mandarin
2 entries- 不宜食用的 adj (not edible; not appropriate, worthy, or safe to eat)
- 不能吃的 adj (not edible; not appropriate, worthy, or safe to eat)
Czech
1 entries- nejedlý adj (not edible; not appropriate, worthy, or safe to eat)
Finnish
2 entries- syömäkelvoton adj (not edible; not appropriate, worthy, or safe to eat)
- syötäväksi kelpaamaton adj (not edible; not appropriate, worthy, or safe to eat)
French
1 entries- immangeable adj (not edible; not appropriate, worthy, or safe to eat)
Galician
2 entries- incomestible adj (not edible; not appropriate, worthy, or safe to eat)
- incomestíbel adj (not edible; not appropriate, worthy, or safe to eat)
German
3 entries- nicht essbar adj (not edible; not appropriate, worthy, or safe to eat)
- unessbar adj (not edible; not appropriate, worthy, or safe to eat)
- ungenießbar adj (not edible; not appropriate, worthy, or safe to eat)
Greek
1 entries- μη εδώδιμος adj (not edible; not appropriate, worthy, or safe to eat)
Hungarian
1 entries- ehetetlen adj (not edible; not appropriate, worthy, or safe to eat)
Italian
2 entries- immangiabile adj (not edible; not appropriate, worthy, or safe to eat)
- incommestibile adj (not edible; not appropriate, worthy, or safe to eat)
Japanese
2 entries- 食えない adj (not edible; not appropriate, worthy, or safe to eat)
- 食べられない adj (not edible; not appropriate, worthy, or safe to eat)
Lithuanian
1 entries- nevalgomas adj (not edible; not appropriate, worthy, or safe to eat)
Macedonian
1 entries- не́јадлив adj (not edible; not appropriate, worthy, or safe to eat)
Marathi
2 entries- अखाद्य adj (not edible; not appropriate, worthy, or safe to eat)
- खाण्यास अयोग्य adj (not edible; not appropriate, worthy, or safe to eat)
Polish
1 entries- niejadalny adj (not edible; not appropriate, worthy, or safe to eat)
Portuguese
1 entries- incomestível adj (not edible; not appropriate, worthy, or safe to eat)
Romanian
2 entries- incomestibil adj (not edible; not appropriate, worthy, or safe to eat)
- necomestibil adj (not edible; not appropriate, worthy, or safe to eat)
Russian
1 entries- несъедо́бный adj (not edible; not appropriate, worthy, or safe to eat)
Spanish
2 entries- incomestible adj (not edible; not appropriate, worthy, or safe to eat)
- incomible adj (not edible; not appropriate, worthy, or safe to eat)
Swedish
1 entries- oätlig adj (not edible; not appropriate, worthy, or safe to eat)
Thai
3 entries- กินไม่ลง adj (not edible; not appropriate, worthy, or safe to eat)
- กินไม่ได้ adj (not edible; not appropriate, worthy, or safe to eat)
- หมาไม่แดก adj (not edible; not appropriate, worthy, or safe to eat)
Ukrainian
1 entries- неїстівни́й adj (not edible; not appropriate, worthy, or safe to eat)
Welsh
1 entries- anfwytadwy adj (not edible; not appropriate, worthy, or safe to eat)
Sample sentences
12 total sentences available.
The chicken was oversalted and inedible.
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The food was nearly inedible.
Source: tatoeba (5256268)
The famous white-sand beaches of Hawaii, for example, actually come from the poop of parrotfish. The fish bite and scrape algae off of rocks and dead corals with their parrot-like beaks, grind up the inedible calcium-carbonate reef material (made mostly of coral skeletons) in their guts, and then excrete it as sand.
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