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palatable
[ pal-uh-tuh-buhl ]
adjective
palatable food.
Synonyms: delectable, delicious
Antonyms: distasteful, tasteless, unsavory, unpalatable
- acceptable or agreeable to the mind or feelings:
palatable ideas.
Synonyms: satisfactory, pleasing
palatable
/ ˈpælətəbəl /
adjective
- pleasant to taste
- acceptable or satisfactory
a palatable suggestion
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Derived Forms
- ˌpalataˈbility, noun
- ˈpalatably, adverb
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Other Words From
- pal·at·a·bil·i·ty [pal-, uh, -t, uh, -, bil, -i-tee], pal·at·a·ble·ness noun
- pal·at·a·bly adverb
- non·pal·at·a·ble adjective
- non·pal·at·a·bly adverb
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Word History and Origins
Origin of palatable1
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Example Sentences
The Muslim populace who love and support you will never find palatable...the scenes of slaughtering the hostages.
Cummings, however, has proven far more controversial and arguably less palatable than her contemporaries.
The former made the latter more palatable; the latter made the former more memorable.
“Nonconsensual sex” is a much more palatable and less loaded term, and it has been adopted by many universities.
He added, “A five-year sentence sounded a little more palatable than 200, so I accepted.”
There is an art in making palatable flapjacks out of nothing but flour and water.
Five or six species of small animals were named hares, or rabbits, merely because their flesh was palatable food.
Though they live only on prey, and drink blood more often than water, yet it is said their flesh is very palatable.
Cooked in the ashes, it makes a palatable but tough cake, which we enjoyed after our long abstinence from bread.
Strabo speaks of very large bats in Mesopotamia, whose flesh was palatable.
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