Definition of Swallowable

1. Adjective. Capable of being swallowed. ¹

2. Adjective. (context: of a pill etc) Relatively easy to swallow. ¹

3. Adjective. (context: by extension of legislation) Able to be accepted by the electorate. ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Definition of Swallowable

1. [adj]

Lexicographical Neighbors of Swallowable

swalings
swallet
swallets
swallie
swallow
swallow-tailed
swallow-tailed coat
swallow-tailed hawk
swallow-tailed kite
swallow dive
swallow hole
swallow one's pride
swallow shrike
swallow up
swallow wort
swallowable (current term)
swallowe
swallowed
swallowers
swallowest
swalloweth
swallowfish
swallowing
swallows
swallowtail
swallowtails
swallowwort
swallowworts
swaly

Literary usage of Swallowable

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. Building a Better Delivery System: A New Engineering/health Care Partnership by Proctor P. Reid, National Academy of Engineering, Institute of Medicine (U.S.) (2005)
"Blood oximeters, heart rate monitors, and temperature sensors could all be components of WIMS; swallowable capsules for viewing the digestive tract are ..."

2. The Century Dictionary: An Encyclopedic Lexicon of the English Language by William Dwight Whitney (1891)
"Eng.] The reader who for the first time meets with an anecdote in its hundredth edition, and its most mitigated and swallowable form, may very naturally ..."

3. American Public Health Protection by Henry Bixby Hemenway, Edwin Frederick Bowers, Mary Sewall Gardner (1916)
"for fattening out his face, instead of grinding his food, — and then bolts the chunks of food the instant they are of swallowable size, an important element ..."

4. Allen's Synonyms and Antonyms by Frederic Sturges Allen (1920)
"... testimonial, introduction, passport, certificate, exequatur. "Credential" is used chiefly in the pi. credible, a. believable, likely, swallowable (rare; ..."

5. The Knickerbocker: Or, New-York Monthly Magazine by Charles Fenno Hoffman, Timothy Flint, Lewis Gaylord Clark, Kinahan Cornwallis, John Holmes Agnew (1836)
"We do occasionally meet with a swallowable article at the first-rate taverns ; but too generally, their punch is like Desdemona, ' So steed that the sense ..."

6. The Knickerbocker: Or, New-York Monthly Magazine by Charles Fenno Hoffman, Timothy Flint, Lewis Gaylord Clark, Kinahan Cornwallis, John Holmes Agnew (1836)
"We do occasionally meet with a swallowable article at the first-rate taverns ; but too generally, their punch is like Desdemona, ' So need that the sense ..."

7. The Knickerbocker. by Charles Fenno Hoffman, Lewis Gaylord Clark, Kinahan Cornwallis, John Holmes Agnew, Timothy Flint, Washington Irving (1836)
"We do occasionally meet with a swallowable article at the first-rate taverns ; but too generally, their punch is like Desdemona, ..."

8. Pharmaceutical Journal by Pharmaceutical Society of Great Britain (1870)
"It is useless trying to make 5 grains of powdered camphor into a pill by means of couf. roses, treacle, gum paste, etc., so as to be of a swallowable size ..."

9. Building a Better Delivery System: A New Engineering/health Care Partnership by Proctor P. Reid, National Academy of Engineering, Institute of Medicine (U.S.) (2005)
"Blood oximeters, heart rate monitors, and temperature sensors could all be components of WIMS; swallowable capsules for viewing the digestive tract are ..."

10. The Century Dictionary: An Encyclopedic Lexicon of the English Language by William Dwight Whitney (1891)
"Eng.] The reader who for the first time meets with an anecdote in its hundredth edition, and its most mitigated and swallowable form, may very naturally ..."

11. American Public Health Protection by Henry Bixby Hemenway, Edwin Frederick Bowers, Mary Sewall Gardner (1916)
"for fattening out his face, instead of grinding his food, — and then bolts the chunks of food the instant they are of swallowable size, an important element ..."

12. Allen's Synonyms and Antonyms by Frederic Sturges Allen (1920)
"... testimonial, introduction, passport, certificate, exequatur. "Credential" is used chiefly in the pi. credible, a. believable, likely, swallowable (rare; ..."

13. The Knickerbocker: Or, New-York Monthly Magazine by Charles Fenno Hoffman, Timothy Flint, Lewis Gaylord Clark, Kinahan Cornwallis, John Holmes Agnew (1836)
"We do occasionally meet with a swallowable article at the first-rate taverns ; but too generally, their punch is like Desdemona, ' So steed that the sense ..."

14. The Knickerbocker: Or, New-York Monthly Magazine by Charles Fenno Hoffman, Timothy Flint, Lewis Gaylord Clark, Kinahan Cornwallis, John Holmes Agnew (1836)
"We do occasionally meet with a swallowable article at the first-rate taverns ; but too generally, their punch is like Desdemona, ' So need that the sense ..."

15. The Knickerbocker; Or, New York Monthly Magazine by Charles Fenno Hoffman, Lewis Gaylord Clark, Kinahan Cornwallis, John Holmes Agnew, Timothy Flint, Washington Irving (1836)
"We do occasionally meet with a swallowable article at the first-rate taverns; but too generally, their punch is like Desdemona, ..."

16. Pharmaceutical Journal by Pharmaceutical Society of Great Britain (1870)
"It is useless trying to make 5 grains of powdered camphor into a pill by means of couf. roses, treacle, gum paste, etc., so as to be of a swallowable size ..."

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