unpalatable

Speech parts

1. unpalatable - Noun

2. unpalatable - Adjective

Meaning

not pleasant or acceptable to the taste or mind

Source: WordNet

Synonyms

distasteful rancid flat offensive gross bitter painful foul unpleasant sour ugly horrible nasty objectionable repulsive
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Antonyms

palatable jolly ambrosian divine acceptable excellent
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Examples

Politics is not the art of the possible. It consists in choosing between the disastrous and the unpalatable. John Kenneth Galbraith

The authorities liked to say that we received a balanced diet; it was indeed balanced - between the unpalatable and the inedible. Nelson Mandela

Without humor, a sports fan is a religious fanatic. Without humor, a newscast is a terrible, depressing, unpalatable thing. Keith Olbermann

If my years as a shatterling had taught me anything, it was that not all questions had answers. Societies had reduced themselves to radioactive dust because they could not accept that single unpalatable truth. Alastair Reynolds

Commonly understood, that is to say: understood by common people, and beyond that it not seldom also means: unpalatable to the un-common people. Marie von Ebner-Eschenbach

Nagging is the repetition of unpalatable truths. Edith Summerskill, Baroness Summerskill

Close letter words and terms

unpaired fin unpaired-winged unpalatability unpalatableness unpalatably unpalatalizable