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Indelible vs Inedible - What's the difference?

indelible | inedible |

As adjectives the difference between indelible and inedible

is that indelible is having the quality of being difficult to delete, remove, wash away, blot out, or efface while inedible is not edible; not appropriate, worthy, or safe to eat.

As a noun inedible is

anything inedible; that which is not a foodstuff.

indelible

English

Adjective

(en adjective)
  • having the quality of being difficult to delete, remove, wash away, blot out, or efface
  • This ink spot on the contract is indelible .
    This stain on my shirt is indelible .
  • incapable of being canceled, lost, or forgotten
  • That horrible story just might make an indelible impression on the memory.
  • * 2014 , (Ruzwana Bashir), " The untold story of how a culture of shame perpetuates abuse. I know, I was a victim", The Guardian , 29 August 2014:
  • During our investigation it became clear that for three decades many other women had suffered at the hands of our abuser, but they had refused to testify against him because of the indelible stigma it would bring.
  • incapable of being annulled
  • * Sprat
  • They are endued with indelible power from above.

    Synonyms

    * unerasable

    Antonyms

    * delible * (difficult to delete) uninsertable

    inedible

    English

    Adjective

    (-)
  • not edible; not appropriate, worthy, or safe to eat
  • Antonyms

    * edible

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • Anything inedible; that which is not a foodstuff.