Not suitable or safe to eat; something that cannot or should not be consumed as food.
From 'in-' (not) + 'edible,' which comes from Latin 'edibilis' (able to be eaten), from 'edere' (to eat). The negative prefix 'in-' reverses the meaning.
The word 'inedible' is different from 'uneaten'—something inedible is impossible or dangerous to eat, while uneaten is just something you chose not to eat, showing how English uses different prefixes to express different types of negation.
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