Meaning

Unpleasant to the taste..

Definitions by Sense

1. Unpleasant to the taste.
2. (figuratively, by extension) Unpleasant or disagreeable.
3. Anything distasteful.

Example Sentences

In one corner of the room there was a huge hearth, over which hung a stock-pot, with a not altogether unpalatable odour of hot soup emanating therefrom.

She did not mean to pamper herself any longer, to go without food because her surroundings made it unpalatable.

Experimentally, some ink has been shown to be unpalatable to fish (Wood et al. 2010) and observationally, ink can also function as an attractant to predators to give cephalopods a bit more time to escape.

But enough of this. Homely truth is unpalatable.

"This is very perplexing," said Duke Deodonato, and he knit his brows; for as he gazed upon the beauty of the damsel, it seemed to him a thing unnatural, undesirable, unpalatable, unpleasant, and unendurable, that she should wed Dr. Fusbius.

A plain, seemingly graceless stylist, his rather unpalatable movies, full of rabid, sloggingly orchestrated physical pain and psychic damage, picture crime as a monstrous, miasmal evil, divesting it of any glamour it ever had.

Their capacity for talking so much and saying so little is astonishing. Their verbosity is unpalatable.

In the severer cases of hookworm the patient sometimes has an appetite for soil, paper, hair, clay, chalk, starch, and other unpalatables.

Word Forms

• more unpalatable
• most unpalatable
• unpalatables

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