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palateable

palateable adjective: dated spelling of palatable.

Adjective

palateable (comparative more palateable, superlative most palateable)

  1. Dated spelling of palatable.
    • “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: […] [George Sidney] for T[homas] Egerton, […], →OCLC, page 188
    • […] the rebels made a dive pretty much as sharks do when a palateable man falls overboard.1862 May 18, “Gen. Mitchel’s Division. The Withdrawal of Gen. Turchin from Tuscumbia.”, in The New York Times, page 3

Forms of palateable

comparativemore palateable
superlativemost palateable

Questions about palateable

What does palateable mean?
Palateable means dated spelling of palatable.
What part of speech is palateable?
Palateable is an adjective.

Words near palateable in the dictionary

  1. palate
  2. palate cleanser
  3. palate cleansers
  4. palate expander
  5. palate expanders
  6. palateable
  7. palated
  8. palateful
  9. palatefulness
  10. palatefuls
  11. palateless

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