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adjective
- 1. (of food or drink) pleasant to taste: "a very palatable local red wine" Similar Opposite
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palatable, appetizing, savory, tasty, toothsome mean agreeable or pleasant especially to the sense of taste. palatable often applies to something that is found to be merely agreeable. butterflies that birds find palatable.
PALATABLE definition: 1. Palatable food or drink has a pleasant taste: 2. acceptable: 3. Palatable food or drink has a…. Learn more.
adjective. acceptable or agreeable to the palate or taste; savory: palatable food. Synonyms: delectable, delicious. Antonyms: distasteful, tasteless, unsavory, unpalatable. acceptable or agreeable to the mind or feelings: palatable ideas. Synonyms: satisfactory, pleasing.
Something that is palatable is acceptable to one’s sense of taste—literally or figuratively. If it's palatable, then you can put up with it — whether it's leftovers or a mediocre made-for-TV movie.
Palatable food or drink has a pleasant taste: a very palatable wine. The meal was barely palatable. Opposite. unpalatable. SMART Vocabulary: related words and phrases. Edible & inedible. best-before date. comestible.
If you describe something such as an idea or method as palatable, you mean that people are willing to accept it. ...a palatable way of sacking staff. That option is not very palatable.
Definition of palatable adjective in Oxford Advanced Learner's Dictionary. Meaning, pronunciation, picture, example sentences, grammar, usage notes, synonyms and more.
Definitions of 'palatable'. 1. If you describe food or drink as palatable, you mean that it tastes pleasant. [formal] [...] 2. If you describe something such as an idea or method as palatable, you mean that people are willing to accept it. [...] More.
PALATABLE meaning: 1. If food or drink is palatable, it has a pleasant taste: 2. If an idea or plan is palatable, it…. Learn more.
adj. 1. Acceptable to the taste; sufficiently agreeable in flavor to be eaten. 2. Acceptable or agreeable to the mind or sensibilities: a palatable solution to the problem. pal′at·a·bil′i·ty, pal′at·a·ble·ness n. pal′at·a·bly adv. American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fifth Edition.
