Unpalatable

Quick meaning: Unpalatable is an adjective meaning Unpleasant to the taste.

Meaning

Unpleasant to the taste.

More Meanings

1. (figuratively, by extension) Unpleasant or disagreeable.
2. Anything distasteful.

Example Sentences

But enough of this. Homely truth is unpalatable.

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

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

• unpalatables

Synonyms for unpalatable

Depending on context, synonyms include distasteful, rough, mawkish, undrinkable, uneatable, unsavory.

Antonyms for unpalatable

Common opposites include delicious, insipid, palatable.

Related Words

Related dictionary entries include unsavoury, unsavory, distasteful, inconvenient, disagreeable, uncomfortable.

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