comestible

adjective

Synonyms and Antonyms of COMESTIBLE

suitable for use as food <some mushrooms are comfortably comestible, but others are decidedly poisonous>

Synonyms comestible, eatable, eating, esculent

Related Words absorbable, chewable, digestible, ingestible, swallowable; nourishing, nutritious, nutritive; appetizing, delicious, flavorful, palatable, savory (also savoury), succulent, tasty, toothsome, toothy

Near Antonyms indigestible, nondigestible, nonnutritious, undigestible

Antonyms inedible, nonedible, uneatable

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