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Eating vs Eatable - What's the difference?

eating | eatable |

As adjectives the difference between eating and eatable

is that eating is suitable to be eaten without being cooked while eatable is able to be eaten; edible.

As nouns the difference between eating and eatable

is that eating is the act of ingesting food while eatable is anything edible; food.

As a verb eating

is present participle of lang=en.

eating

English

Verb

(head)

    • Adjective

    (-)
  • Suitable to be eaten without being cooked.
    • Wait! That's not an eating apple.

    Noun

    (wikipedia eating)
  • The act of ingesting food.
  • Food; cooking, cuisine.
    • I remember when we visited Aunt Martha's house, we had some really good eating !
  • The act of corroding or consuming some substance.

    • Synonyms

    * (ingesting food) dining, consuming, consumption

    Anagrams

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    eatable

    English

    Adjective

    (en adjective)
  • Able to be eaten; edible.
  • *
    • The contents of the pan began to boil, and he turned to plunge his hand into the bowl; I conjectured that this preparation was probably for our supper, and, being hungry, I resolved it should be eatable ;
  • * 1891 , , Natural selection and tropical nature , page 399,
    • When the seeds are larger, softer, and more eatable , they are protected by an excessively hard and stony covering, as in the plum and peach tribe ; or they are enclosed in a tough horny core, as with crabs and apples.
  • * 1911 , ,
    • Their diet includes practically everything eatable they can capture or kill.

    Usage notes

    Rather informal, due to simple analysis as eat + . edible is the usual term, and much more frequent – eatable may be interpreted as an error – while comestible is relatively formal. More narrowly, used to mean “food that can be eaten, but is not of very high quality ”.

    Synonyms

    * comestible * edible

    Antonyms

    * uneatable

    Coordinate terms

    * drinkable, potable

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • (mostly, in the plural) Anything edible; food.

    • Synonyms

    * comestible * edible