unpalatable
/ənpˈælətəbəl/
Word Rarity
Rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 2.56 in modern English
15
Scrabble Score
11
Letters
5
Syllables
8
Unique Chars
Meaning
adj
Unpleasant to the taste.
adj
noun
Example Sentences
- "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."
- "She did not mean to pamper herself any longer, to go without food because her surroundings made it unpalatable."
- "Experimentally, some ink has been shown to be unpalatable to fish (Wood et al. 2010) and observationally, ink can also function as an attractant to predators to give cephalopods a bit more time to escape."
- "But enough of this. Homely truth is unpalatable."
- ""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."
- "A plain, seemingly graceless stylist, his rather unpalatable movies, full of rabid, sloggingly orchestrated physical pain and psychic damage, picture crime as a monstrous, miasmal evil, divesting it of any glamour it ever had."
Etymology
Etymology tree Proto-Indo-European *né Proto-Indo-European *n̥- Proto-Germanic *un- Proto-West Germanic *un- Old English un- Middle English un- English un- 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 *-dʰlom Proto-Italic *-ðlom Proto-Italic *-ðlis Latin -bilis Latin -ābilis Old French -ablebor. Middle English -able English -able English palatable English unpalatable From un- + palatable.
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Synonyms
distasteful
ill-flavored
rough
mawkish
undrinkable
uneatable
unpalatable
unsavory
unstomachable
yucky