Definitions
American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition
- adj. Fit to be eaten; edible.
- n. Something that can be eaten as food: meat, cheese, and other comestibles.
Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
- Eatable; edible.
- n. An eatable; an edible; an article of food.
GNU Webster's 1913
- adj. Suitable to be eaten; eatable; esculent.
- n. Something suitable to be eaten; -- commonly in the plural.
WordNet 3.0
- n. any substance that can be used as food
- adj. suitable for use as food
Etymologies
- From Middle French comestible, or its source, Late Latin comestibilis, from Latin comedō ("I eat"), from com- (English com-) + edō ("I eat") (as in English edible), from Proto-Indo-European (whence also English eat). (Wiktionary)
- French, from Old French, from Late Latin comēstibilis, from Latin comēstus, alteration (influenced by pōtus, drunk) of comēsus, past participle of comedere, to eat up : com-, intensive pref.; see com- + edere, to eat. (American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition)
Examples
“If an herb, spice, or other comestible is one I’ve never heard of, I buy it immediately.”
Ingredient: Dried Okra (with Recipe for Armenian Okra & Meat in Tangy Tomato Sauce)
“Had I simply gone to the store without thinking, the word 'comestible' would never have occurred to me ....”
“The men could hardly figure just how the stuff came to be considered a "comestible," for it was not palatable.”
“Last year, not only were such gustatory stars as Mario Batali, Daniel Boulud, Tom Colicchio and Drew Nieporent on hand to offer comestible wisdom and cheerful commentary but also to slap backs and trade congrats.”
“Raised in the mountains of Colorado by hippie parents and exposed to feminist groups, back-to-the-land comestible culture, "new age" spiritual awareness, and antiquated birth techniques, Jacobsen's work has consistently drawn from the "land" and retains an exceptional sense of self.”
The Huffington Post: Alexander Adler: Jacobsen's Counter and Culture
“The fictional beverage line created a "comestible work of art," founder Till Krautkrämer explained to the Village Voice.”
The Huffington Post: The Daily Meal: The Most Bizarre Beverage Flavors
“The fictional beverage line created a "comestible work of art," founder Till Krautkrämer explained to the Village Voice.”
The Huffington Post: The Daily Meal: The Most Bizarre Beverage Flavors
“Some months earlier, on the occasion of Ahab's birthday, the Fourth Mate, Mr. Carvel, had surprised the Captain with his playfully configured comestible Fudgie the Whale.”
“The old adage, "The diner waits for the soufflé; the soufflé does not wait for the diner," is rule number one: The finished dish must go directly from oven to table, as this comestible becomes considerably less edible if not eaten immediately.”
The Wall Street Journal: Not as Hard as It's Puffed Up to Be
“Clearly, this was not your found Virgin Mother in the swirls of a toasted tortilla: a lot of work goes into making a comestible and commendable work of art.”
The Huffington Post: Jim O'Grady: Art You Can Eat -- An Edible Sculpture Contest
Lists
These user-created lists contain the word ‘comestible’.
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GRE Barrons Wordlist
A complete Barron's Wordlist for GRE preparation. Your online flashcard replacement.
abase, abash, abate, abbreviate, abdicate, aberrant, aberration, abet, abeyance, abhor, abject, abjure and 4087 more...
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New words
new words or spelling issues
voluble, Metagrobolize, salubrious, calumny, fugacity, withdrawal, bourse, hypertrophy, leitmotif, argot, improvident, damask and 249 more...
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words 1
Traduce, Ramify, precipitous, rapture, adumbrate, knell, smolder, vagary, choleric, sibylline, hypocritical, jejune and 185 more...
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SAT Words
But only the ones that I don't already know.
abase, abash, abominate, abstruse, acclivity, accolade, accost, adroit, adulate, adulterate, adumbrate, affray and 241 more...
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Open List: SUGGESTIONS FOR THE UNDERS...
Recruiting all Wordieniks to introduce me to their best word friends!! If words were people, this is the list for ones I should meet and ones I will (hopefully) like.
gyre, penultimate, cake, schadenfreude, lacuna, skedaddle, schopfling, morphoanatomy, overscore, swasivious, brightling, phrontisserie and 17 more...
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mbmontague's list
This is a list of words I like or words that baffle me.
inchoate, praeternatural, articulate, ideation, pungent, polemic, cogent, aberrant, salient, wisp, withe, nexus and 24 more...
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Pseudo-seduction
With which to confuse innocent ladies (or gentlemen, if you prefer) who might be invited to don a coverslut and come to tour an adulterine castle. Plausible deniability through lexicographical obsc...
adulterine, coverslut, cunctatory, puissant, quincunx, coccyx, groin vault, sexpartite vault, nookshaft, putlog hole, cuirass, mensuration and 35 more...
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Of -ibles, not -ables
Tricksy buggers! I've not included those where neither is favorable.
accessible, admissible, alible, apprehensible, audible, coercible, cognoscible, collapsible, collectible, combustible, comestible, compactible and 103 more...
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SAT Words
But only the ones that I don't already know.
abase, abash, abominate, abstruse, acclivity, accolade, accost, adroit, adulate, adulterate, adumbrate, affray and 241 more...
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Dictionary.com Words of the Days of 1999
1999 · 2000 · 2001 · 2002 · 2003 · 2004 · 2005 · 2006 · 2007 · 2008
emolument, palindrome, deprecate, bivouac, umbrage, incipient, dapple, pugnacious, capitulate, susurrus, thaumaturgy, capacious and 229 more...
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GRE Words
abjure, unswear, state, rescission, indemnification, ab, reny, abnegate, vitiated, vitiate, adumbrated, abash and 378 more...
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How very mikeropological..
Basically it's just mikeropology's words, but with his username turned into an adjectivally splendid list name.
mikeropology, squoze, anthropromorphism, mullu, spondylus, goobers, hipster, burnt umber, ochre, canvas, lapizure, burnt sienna and 172 more...
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Niels's Words
bien-pensant, pro re nata, zeitgeist, naïve, quod erat demonst..., dramastic, mélange, amanuensis, heuristic, hermeneutic, gist, gumption and 157 more...
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word list!!!!
lagniappe
syzygy, bloviate, lagniappe, laconic, condign, umbrage, susurrus, thaumaturgy, capacious, capitulate, glower, repast and 179 more...
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List Erine
cool mint antiseptic
shalom, cattywampus, bourgeoisie, aerophile, traverse, grotto, epicurean, ex cathedra, nautilus, epitaph, lathe, continuum and 753 more...
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Time for a new list!
abrupt, erupt, rupture, sync, appropinquity, heterochromia, homochromatic, monochromatic, willy nilly, nitty gritty, kowtow, wonton and 455 more...
Tweets
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