palatable

Adjective

Meaning

Agreeable to the palate or taste; savory; hence, acceptable; pleasing; as, palatable food; palatable advice.

Source: Webster's dictionary

Synonyms

toothsome good relishing acceptable sweet welcome pretty pleasant satisfactory nice edible culinary ripe grateful pleasing
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Antonyms

unpalatable poor flat bad evil offensive
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Related terms

palate palatability

Phrases with the word

highly palatable make palatable

Examples

An efficiency-regime cannot be run without a few heroes stuck about it to carry off the dullness - much as plums have to be put into bad pudding to make it palatable. E. M. Forster

Truth-tellers are not always palatable. There is a preference for candy bars. Gwendolyn Brooks

Good lies need a leavening of truth to make them palatable. William McIlvanney

I have to watch the news and movies about the people who I am not, then translate my struggle in order to make it palatable for those people who don't have to march but are sympathetic to my voice. Margaret Cho

Death, I had discovered long ago, was available in varying flavors, and none of them particularly palatable. Jasper Fforde

Truth must be seasoned to make it palatable. Danish Proverb

Close letter words and terms

palash Palashi palatability palatableness palatably palatal