palatable

Pleasing to the taste, tasty.

Adjective

  1. Pleasing to the taste, tasty.
    • For some instant noodles make a palatable, if not especially nutritious, meal.
    • The fermentation of flour by means of brewer’s or distiller’s yeast produces, if rightly managed, results far more palatable and wholesome. - 1896, Harriet Beecher Stowe, Household Papers and Stories:

    Synonyms: ambrosial appetizing dainty delectable delicious delish exquisite finger-lickin' good flavorful flavorous flavorsome gustful lekker lickerish lip-smacking luscious moreish mouthwatering nummy ono palatable sapid savory scrummy

    Antonyms: unpalatable

  2. Tolerable, acceptable.
    • The agreement was palatable to both of them.
    • “I did hear, too, that there was a time, when sermon-making was not so palateable to you, as it seems to be at present;[…]” - 1813 January 27, [Jane Austen], chapter X, in Pride and Prejudice: […], volume III, London:...
    • Whether it’s palatable for the vice-chairman of Hillary’s presidential campaign to be embroiled in allegations of conflicts of interest, obtaining patronage jobs, or misrepresenting time worked remains to be seen. -...

Origin

Etymology tree 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 *-tḗr Proto-Indo-European *-dʰlom Proto-Indo-European *-dʰlis Proto-Italic *-ðlis Latin -bilis Latin -ābilis Old French -ablebor. Middle English -able English -able English palatable From palate + -able.

Forms

more palatable most palatable palateable

Related

palatability palate

Derived

hyperpalatable impalatable nonpalatable palatableness palatably