unpalatable
unpalatable adjective: unpleasant to the taste.
Adjective
unpalatable (comparative more unpalatable, superlative most unpalatable)
- Unpleasant to the taste.
- 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
- 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
- Unpleasant or disagreeable.
- 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
- "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
Noun
unpalatable (plural unpalatables)
- Anything distasteful.
- In the severer cases of hookworm the patient sometimes has an appetite for soil, paper, hair, clay, chalk, starch, and other unpalatables.1934, Your Germs and Mine, page 295
- His wife, a small woman who walked always on high heels, borrowed Gerhardie's primus stove several times a day to cook her husband gargantuan meals of cockles, mussels, snails, and other such unpalatables.1990, Dido Davies, Andrew Davies, William Gerhardie: A Biography, page 164
unpalatable meaning in Tamil, Urdu, Malayalam and Kannada
unpalatable in Tamil
- சுவையற்ற, விரும்பத்தகாத, உண்ணத்தகாத
unpalatable in Urdu
- اجیرن, بدمزہ, ناگوار, تلخ
unpalatable in Malayalam
- unappealing, unappetizing, unsavoury
- അരുചികരമായ, അരുചിപ്രദമായ, രുചിക്കാത്ത, നിരാസ്വാദ, അഹിതകരമായ, ആസ്വദിക്കാൻ കൊള്ളാത്ത
- unpleasant, disagreeable, regrettable
- അഹിതകരമായ, അരോചകമായ, അഹൃദ്യ, ഖേദകരമായ, പശ്ചാത്താപാർഹമായ, വ്യസനകരമായ
unpalatable in Kannada
- ತಿನ್ನಲಾಗದ, ಸವಿಯಿಲ್ಲದ, ರುಚಿಸದ, ಹಿಡಿಸದ, ಒಪ್ಪದ, ಅಂಗೀಕಾರಾರ್ಹವಲ್ಲದ
Examples of unpalatable in a sentence
- The moldiness of the bread meant that it was unpalatable, if not downright inedible.
- In what world is it "wholly unconscionable and politically unpalatable" to deny Nigeria a Security Council veto?
- The idea of any such central organisation is unpalatable to some people.
Synonyms of unpalatable
- distasteful
- ill-flavored
- rough
- undrinkable
- uneatable
- unsavory
- unstomachable
- yucky
- mawkish
Antonyms
Forms of unpalatable
| Adjective | |
|---|---|
| comparative | more unpalatable |
| superlative | most unpalatable |
| Noun | |
| plural | unpalatables |
Origin of unpalatable
From un- + palatable.
Words formed from unpalatable
Questions about unpalatable
- What does unpalatable mean?
- Unpalatable means unpleasant to the taste.
- What is unpalatable in Tamil?
- Unpalatable in Tamil is சுவையற்ற, விரும்பத்தகாத, உண்ணத்தகாத. See Unpalatable meaning in Tamil.
- What part of speech is unpalatable?
- Unpalatable can be an adjective or a noun.
Words near unpalatable in the dictionary
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Adapted from Wiktionary: unpalatable (page history and authors); unpalatable (Tamil Wiktionary) (page history and authors); unpalatable (Urdu Wiktionary) (page history and authors); unpalatable (Olam, E.K. Kurup corpus) (dataset and license); unpalatable (Kannada Wiktionary) (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.
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