Tainted vs Edible - What's the difference?
tainted | edible |
corrupted or filled with imperfections.
(taint)
That can be eaten without harm; innocuous to humans; suitable for consumption.
That can be eaten without disgust.
* 1957 , Jane Van Zandt Brower, Experimental Stdies of Mimicry in Some North American Butterflies'', in 1996, Lynne D. Houck, Lee C. Drickamer (editors), ''Foundations of Animal Behavior: Classic Papers with Commentaries ,
* 2006 , Ernest Small, Culinary Herbs ,
* 2009 , Ephraim Philip Lansky, Helena Maaria Paavilainen, Figs ,
Anything edible.
(marijuana) a foodstuff, usually a baked good, infused with tetrahydrocannabinol from cannabutter etc.
As adjectives the difference between tainted and edible
is that tainted is corrupted or filled with imperfections while edible is that can be eaten without harm; innocuous to humans; suitable for consumption.As a verb tainted
is (taint).As a noun edible is
anything edible.tainted
English
Adjective
(en adjective)- Hey, get that away from me! It was bought with tainted money.
Usage notes
* Nouns to which "tainted" is often applied: food, meat, beef, pork, milk, water, fish, toys, love, evidence, money, reputation.Synonyms
* corrupt * impure * imperfectVerb
(head)edible
English
Adjective
(en adjective)- edible fruit
- Although stale, the bread was edible .
page 81,
- However, rather than try to place the Viceroy in a rigid, all-or-none category which implies more than the data show, the Viceroy is here considered more edible' than its model, the Monarch, but initially less ' edible (except to C-2) than the non-mimetic butterflies used in these experiments.
page 17,
- Recently germinated seeds are often even more nutritious from the point of view of humans because the stored chemicals are often transformed into more edible and palatable substances.
page 4,
- This gets to the heart of the matter because, in the parthenogenic state, the fruits are more edible (though there are also apparently advantages to pollinated figs, which may be bigger and stronger) and the trees more productive from the human's point of view.