Palatable
['pælətəb(ə)l] or ['pælətəbl]
Definition
(adj.) acceptable to the taste or mind; 'palatable food'; 'a palatable solution to the problem' .
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Definition
(a.) Agreeable to the palate or taste; savory; hence, acceptable; pleasing; as, palatable food; palatable advice.
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Synonyms and Synonymous
a. Savory, delicious, nice, luscious, delicate.
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Synonyms and Antonyms
SYN:Tasteful, savory, appetizing, delicious, toothsome,[See DELICIOUS]
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Examples
- Half the parsnips of society are served and rendered palatable with no other sauce. William Makepeace Thackeray. Vanity Fair.
- Did they make killing any more palatable? Hemingway, Ernest. For Whom The Bell Tolls.
- A disagreeable truth would be palatable through her lips, but I am the wretchedest being in the world at a civil falsehood. Jane Austen. Emma.
- It was not, she remarked, so palatable to her, but it was the next best. Charles Dickens. David Copperfield.
- Palatable food was as ashes and sawdust to her. Charlotte Bronte. Shirley.
- Certain parts of the hog carcasses which would not be palatable enough to go into human consumption are made up into stock foods. Various. The Wonder Book of Knowledge.
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