unpalatable en · ADJ
Etymology
Etymology tree Proto-Indo-European *né Proto-Indo-European *n̥- Proto-Germanic *un- Proto-West Germanic *un- Old English un- Middle English un- English un- Proto-Indo-European *pleth₂-? Proto-Indo-European *pel-? Proto-Indo-European *pleh₂-osder. Latin palātumder. Old French palatbor. Middle English palate English palate Proto-Indo-European *-dʰlom Proto-Italic *-ðlom Proto-Italic *-ðlis Latin -bilis Latin -ābilis Old French -ablebor. Middle English -able English -able English palatable English unpalatable From un- + palatable.
Meanings
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Unpleasant to the taste.
She did not mean to pamper herself any longer, to go without food because her surroundings made it unpalatable.
1905, Edith Wharton, The House of Mirth, New York, N.Y.: Charles Scribner’s Sons, →OCLC: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.
2017 August 9, Mark Carnall, “Why do cephalopods produce ink? And what's ink made of, anyway?”, in The Guardian, archived from the original on 15 Mar 2023: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.
1905 January 12, Baroness Orczy [i.e., Emma Orczy], The Scarlet Pimpernel, popular edition, London: Greening & Co., published 20 March 1912, →OCLC:
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(broadly, figuratively) Unpleasant or disagreeable.
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.
2003, Jack Shadoian, Dreams and Dead Ends: The American Gangster Film, page 196:But enough of this. Homely truth is unpalatable.
1876, Mark Twain [pseudonym; Samuel Langhorne Clemens], The Adventures of Tom Sawyer, Hartford, Conn.: The American Publishing Company, →OCLC:Their capacity for talking so much and saying so little is astonishing. Their verbosity is unpalatable.
2016 February 8, Marwan Bishara, “Why Obama fails the leadership test in the Middle East”, in Al Jazeera English, archived from the original on 20 Feb 2018:"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.
1895, Anthony Hope, Frivolous Cupid:
Forms
| Spelling | Features | Labels | Source |
|---|---|---|---|
| more unpalatable | Degree=Cmp | lexicographic | |
| most unpalatable | Degree=Sup | lexicographic |
Antonyms
Deriveds
Hypernyms
Hyponyms
bitter · unsweetened · sour · unsweet
Relateds
Synonyms
rough · yucky · mawkish · unpalatable · unstomachable · unsavory · undrinkable · ill-flavored · uneatable · distasteful
Translations (30)
de unappetitlich (unpleasant to the taste) · de abstoßend ((by extension) unpleasant or disagreeable) · mn амтгүй (unpleasant to the taste) · nl onaangenaam ((by extension) unpleasant or disagreeable) · sv oaptitlig (unpleasant to the taste) · ru невку́сный (unpleasant to the taste) · nl onsmakelijk (unpleasant to the taste) · es desagradable (unpleasant to the taste) · uk несмачни́й (unpleasant to the taste) · hu rossz ízű (unpleasant to the taste) · es no paladeable (unpleasant to the taste) · es incomible (unpleasant to the taste) · ba тәмһеҙ (unpleasant to the taste) · es poco paladeable (unpleasant to the taste) · fr dégoutant (unpleasant to the taste) · cmn 難吃 /难吃 (unpleasant to the taste) · fr peu appétissant (unpleasant to the taste) · it sgradevole (unpleasant to the taste) · fr désagréable ((by extension) unpleasant or disagreeable) · de widerwärtig ((by extension) unpleasant or disagreeable) · mi kōtuhi (unpleasant to the taste) · es intragable (unpleasant to the taste) · es nada paladeable (unpleasant to the taste) · pl niesmaczny (unpleasant to the taste) · be нясма́чны (unpleasant to the taste) · cs nedobrý (unpleasant to the taste) · fi pahanmakuinen (unpleasant to the taste) · de unangenehm ((by extension) unpleasant or disagreeable) · bg неапетитен (unpleasant to the taste) · de geschmacklos (unpleasant to the taste)