uneatable en · ADJ
Etymology
From un- + eatable.
Meanings
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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:
Forms
| Spelling | Features | Labels | Source |
|---|---|---|---|
| most uneatable | Degree=Sup | lexicographic | |
| un-eatable | alternative | lexicographic | |
| more uneatable | Degree=Cmp | lexicographic |