unpalatable
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Etymology
Adjective
unpalatable (comparative more unpalatable, superlative most unpalatable)
- Unpleasant to the taste.
- 1905 January 12, Baroness Orczy [i.e., Emma Orczy], The Scarlet Pimpernel, popular edition, London: Greening & Co., published 20 March 1912, →OCLC:
- 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, Edith Wharton, The House of Mirth, New York, N.Y.: Charles Scribner’s Sons, →OCLC:
- She did not mean to pamper herself any longer, to go without food because her surroundings made it unpalatable.
- (by extension) Unpleasant or disagreeable.
- 1876, Mark Twain [pseudonym; Samuel Langhorne Clemens], The Adventures of Tom Sawyer, Hartford, Conn.: The American Publishing Company, →OCLC:
- But enough of this. Homely truth is unpalatable.
- 1895, Anthony Hope, Frivolous Cupid:
- "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.
- 2003, Jack Shadoian, Dreams and Dead Ends: The American Gangster Film, page 196:
- 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.
Synonyms
Translations
unpleasant to the taste
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(by extension) unpleasant or disagreeable
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Noun
unpalatable (plural unpalatables)
- Anything distasteful.
- 1934, Your Germs and Mine, page 295:
- In the severer cases of hookworm the patient sometimes has an appetite for soil, paper, hair, clay, chalk, starch, and other unpalatables.
- 1990, Dido Davies, Andrew Davies, William Gerhardie: A Biography, page 164:
- 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.
- 2019, Paul Williams, Andreas Krebs, The Illusion of Invincibility:
- Denial and disbelief tend to be the default, not a pragmatic embracing of unthinkables and unpalatables. The way things have been is not the way they are and will soon be.
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