Modifying Another Word

• almost: Dinner in the very average restaurant, Emer being served an almost inedible meal of tinned mushrooms with a mountain of boiled vegetables.

• virtually: The blackthorn's fruit is the sloe, but in its raw state, it is virtually inedible.

• totally: The food on the flight was totally inedible, and I am not fussy.

• completely: It basically turned a potato into a mushy mess that was completely inedible.

Modifies a noun

• food: There will be dicks, there will be dodgy flats, there will be inedible food.

• offal: The inedible offals, after cleaning, are usually shipped out direct to a rendering plant.

• fruit: The flowers are usually followed by spherical, fleshy but inedible fruits.

• matter: For the ribs and wings, proportions of bone and inedible matter were also recorded.

• part: That's the machinery that brings the inedible parts out to the trailer to be dumped.

• cheese: Nolan spends much her biggest supporters inedible swiss cheese.

Used with adjective complement

• become: In a matter of minutes, all the trees will become inedible.

• deem: It is most often rendered animal fat, restaurant grease, or other oils too rancid or deemed inedible for humans.

• consider: Most are considered inedible so are usually thrown back.