unpalatable

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unpalatable

adjective more unpalatable · most unpalatable

  1. 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.
  2. broadly, figuratively Unpleasant or disagreeable. But enough of this. Homely truth is unpalatable.

Similar: distasteful, ill-flavored, rough, mawkish, undrinkable, uneatable, unpalatable, unsavory, unstomachable, yucky · Opposite: delicious, insipid

noun unpalatables

  1. Anything distasteful. In the severer cases of hookworm the patient sometimes has an appetite for soil, paper, hair, clay, chalk, starch, and other unpalatables.

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adj unpleasant to the taste

Españoldesagradable, incomible, intragable, no paladeable, poco paladeable, nada paladeable
中文難吃 /难吃 nánchī
Françaisdégoutant, peu appétissant
Deutschgeschmacklos, unappetitlich
Italianosgradevole
Русскийневку́сный nevkúsnyj

adj (by extension) unpleasant or disagreeable

Françaisdésagréable
Deutschunangenehm, abstoßend, widerwärtig

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@misc{unpalatable_2026,
  title = {unpalatable},
  howpublished = {Wiktionary, via Micwyn},
  year = {2026},
  url = {https://micwyn.com/word/unpalatable},
  urldate = {2026-11-06}
}