Unpalatable

Definition: Unpalatable

Unpalatable

Adjective

1. Not pleasant or acceptable to the taste or mind; "an unpalatable meal"; "unpalatable truths"; "unpalatable behavior".

Date "unpalatable" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1823. (references)

Synonym: Unpalatable

Synonym: Distasteful. (additional references)

Antonym: palatable (adj). (additional references)

Context	Synonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus).
Pain	Adjective: causing pain, hurting; Verb: hurtful; (bad); painful; dolorific, dolorous; unpleasant; unpleasing, displeasing; disagreeable, unpalatable, bitter, distasteful; uninviting; unwelcome; undesirable, undesired; obnoxious; unacceptable, unpopular, thankless.
Unsavoriness	Verb: be unpalatable. Adjective: sicken, disgust, nauseate, pall, turn the stomach.
	Adjective: unsavory, unpalatable, unsweetened, unsweet; ill-flavored; bitter, bitter as gall; acrid, acrimonious; rough.
Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus.

Crosswords: Unpalatable

English words defined with "unpalatable": deerberry, Disrelish ♦ Impalatable ♦ off ♦ sour, squaw huckleberry ♦ turned ♦ Un-, unpalatably ♦ Vaccinium stamineum. (references)

Specialty definitions using "unpalatable": Food Contamination ♦ Karnal bunt ♦ morning nausea ♦ Non-potable. (references)

Author	Quotation
John Kenneth Galbraith	Politics is not the art of the possible. It consists of choosing between the disastrous and the unpalatable.
Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

Subject	Topic	Quote
Business		The government response has been to propose some unpalatable measures in the hope that there will be gradual acceptance of the underlying policies. (references)
Trade	Australia	An IRA was carried out for cooked U.S. poultry, but the resulting cooking times and temperatures are excessively high and would render the product unpalatable. (references)
Source: compiled by the editor from ICON Group International, Inc.; see credits.

Speaker	Term	Phrase(s)
Jimmy Carter	1977-1981	The latter option is particularly unpalatable given the significant increase in the tax rate already mandated in law.
Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

"Unpalatable" is generally used as an adjective (general or positive) -- approximately 100.00% of the time. "Unpalatable" is used about 128 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted)

Parts of Speech	Percent	Usage per 100 Million Words	Rank in English
Adjective (general or positive)	100%	128	28,261

Expression using "unpalatable": be unpalatable. Additional references.
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Language		Translations for "unpalatable"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses.
Albanian		i pashijshëm (insipid, tasteless, unsavory, unsavoury), i pakëndshëm (awkward, bad, disgustful, disgusting, distasteful, dreary, grating, hard, ill-favored, ill-favoured, nasty, objectionable, repellent, ugly, unattractive, uncongenial, ungrateful, unlovable, unpleasant, unpresentable, unsightly, warm). (various references)

Arabic		‏غير لذيذ المذاق, ‏طريه, ‏بغيض (abominable, accursed, antipathetic, beastly, blasted, cursed, damned, detestable, distasteful, dreadful, forbidding, frightful, hateful, horrid, impossible, nasty, noxious, objectionable, obnoxious, odious, out of favor, out of favour, repellent, repugnant, repulsive, sticky, ungrateful, unhappy, unlikely, unpleasant, unsavory, unsavoury, unwelcome, villainous). (various references)

Bulgarian		неапетитен (unappetizing), неприятен (annoying, chronic, clammy, disagreeable, displeasing, distasteful, hairy, hideous, hoggish, inconvenient, invidious, irksome, nasty, objectionable, painful, plaguesome, plaguy, repugnant, sour, tiresome, troublesome, ugly, unagreeable, unappetizing, uncongenial, uncool, undesirable, ungracious, ungrateful, unpleasant, untoward, unwelcome, vinegary, wicked), безвкусен (conspicuous, flavorless, flavourless, gaudy, gingerbread, insipid, meretricious, savorless, savourless, tasteless, tawdry, tinsel, twopence colored, twopence coloured, unsavory, unsavoury, vapid, watery, wishy washy), противен (abhorrent, abominable, adverse, bastard, contrary, cross, disagreeable, foul, fulsome, ghastly, gross, horrid, loud, mucky, nameless, nasty, noisome, objectionable, obnoxious, odious, offensive, opposing, pestilential, rebarbative, repugnant, repulsive, scarlet, sickening, sickly, sorry, sour, squalid, swinish, ugly, unattractive, unfavorable, unfavourable, ungracious, ungrateful, unpleasant, unsavory, unsavoury, vexatious, vile, villainous). (various references)

Chinese		味�"差. (various references)

Czech		trpký (bitter, dry, harsh, painful, sour, tart), nestravitelný (inconsumable, indigestible, stodgy), nepoživatelný (inedible), nepřijatelný (beyond the pale, inadmissible, objectionable, out, unacceptable), nechutný (disgusting, distasteful, mawkish, odious, pasty, repulsive, revolting, unappetizing, unsavory), hořký (bitter). (various references)

French		immangeable (uneatable), désagréable (unattractive, unpleasant), dérangeant. (various references)

German		unschmackhaft (unsavory, unsavoury), schlecht (amiss, bad, bad (worse, badly, chronic, corrupt, decayed, evil, faulty, foul, hard, ill, inferior, lamentable, lamentably, low, maladjusted, miserable, nasty, off, poor, poorly, sick, stale, terribly, uneasy, unhealthy, unkind, unsatisfactory, unsavory, unsavoury, unsuitably, wicked, wrong). (various references)

Greek		όχι εύγεστοσ, ανούσιοσ (flat, flavorless, flavourless, insipid, jejune, milk and water, namby-pamby, savorless, tasteless, unsavory, unsavoury, vapid, zestless). (various references)

Hungarian		rossz ízû. (various references)

Italian		sgradevole (bad, bleak, disagreeable, dismal, distasteful, dreary, ghastly, grisly, horrible, invidious, nasty, objectionable, obnoxious, unpleasant, unsavory, unsavoury, unsightly). (various references)

Pig Latin		alatableunpay

Portuguese		repulsivo (offensive, repellent, repulsive, ugly, unsavory, unsavoury), nauseabundo (foul, nauseous, putrid, queasy, stinking), intragável (brackish), de gosto desagradável. (various references)

Russian		невкусный (unappetizing, unsavory, unsavoury). (various references)

Serbo-Croatian		neukusan (distasteful, flashy, insipid, tasteless, unappetizing, unsavory, unsavoury), neprijatan (awkward, disagreeable, harsh, nasty, offensive, unagreeable, uncongenial, unflattering, ungracious, unkind, unpleasant, unsavory, unsavoury). (various references)

Spanish		incomible (inedible). (various references)

Swedish		obehagligde, oaptitlig (unappetizing), motbjudande (abhorrent, disgusting, distasteful, foul, hideous, objectionable, obnoxious, odious, offensive, pestilential, repugnant, repulsive, ugly, unappealing, unsavory, unsavoury). (various references)

Turkish		tatsız (arid, chippy, disagreeable, distasteful, dull, dusty, flat, flavorless, flavourless, frail, insipid, milk and water, objectionable, queasy, savorless, savourless, sticky, tame, tasteless, ugly, unamusing, uncomfortable, uncongenial, ungracious, unpleasant, unsweetened, unwelcome, vapid, watery), hoş olmayan (disagreeable, objectionable, ungracious, unlikable, unlikeable, unpleasant). (various references)

Vietnamese		không ngon (unsavoury). (various references)

Welsh		caswir (unpalatable truth). (various references)
Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

Misspellings
	"Unpalatable" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: unpalatble, unpalettable, unpallatable, unpallatible, unpalletable. (additional references)
Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references).

# of Phoneme Matches	Pronunciation	Word(s) rhyming with "unpalatable" (pronounced unpa"lutubul)
9	-p a" l u t u b u l	palatable.
6	-u t u b u l	attributable, charitable, creditable, disreputable, equitable, forfeitable, habitable, heritable, imitable, indomitable, inequitable, inevitable, inheritable, inhospitable, inimitable, irritable, marketable, profitable, reputable, uninhabitable, unprofitable, veritable.
5	-t u b u l	acceptable, accountable, adaptable, adjustable, adoptable, collectible, comfortable, compatible, constable, contemptible, contestable, convertible, copyrightable, countable, debatable, deductible, delectable, detectable, digestible, discountable, eatable, electable, excitable, exportable, forgettable, harvestable, hospitable, immutable, imperceptible, implantable, incompatible, incontrovertible, indestructible, indisputable, inexhaustible, inflatable, injectable, inscrutable, insupportable, insurmountable, interruptible, intractable, investable, irrefutable, irresistible, lamentable, nonconvertible, nondeductible, notable, patentable, perceptible, portable, potable, predictable, presentable, preventable, printable, prosecutable, quotable, redoubtable, regrettable, rentable, repeatable, reportable, resettable, respectable, retractable, suggestible, suitable, supportable, susceptible, tractable, transmittable, transportable, treatable, unacceptable, unaccountable, unbeatable, uncollectible, uncomfortable, undetectable, unelectable, unforgettable, unpredictable, unprintable, unsuitable, unsupportable, vegetable.
4	-u b u l	abominable, accessible, achievable, actionable, addressable, admirable, admissible, adorable, advisable, affable, affordable, agreeable, allowable, amenable, amendable, amiable, amicable, analyzable, answerable, appealable, applicable, appreciable, approachable, approvable, arable, arguable, attainable, audible, available, avoidable, bankable, bearable, believable, billable, biodegradable, breakable, buildable, burnable, callable, cannibal, capable, changeable, chargeable, classifiable, collapsible, Combinable, commendable, communicable, comparable, compensable, comprehensible, conceivable, confirmable, considerable, consumable, controllable, credible, crucible, culpable, curable, defensible, definable, degradable, deliverable, demonstrable, dependable, deplorable, deployable, depreciable, describable, desirable, despicable, detachable, determinable, developable, disagreeable, discernible, discoverable, dishonorable, dispensable, disposable, distinguishable, divisible, doable, drinkable, drivable, durable, edible, eligible, Embraceable, employable, enforceable, enjoyable, enviable, equable, erasable, erodible, estimable, exchangeable, excludable, excusable, execrable, exercisable, expandable, expendable, explainable, extendable, extendible, fallible, fashionable, fathomable, favorable, feasible, fissionable, fixable, flammable, flexible, forcible, foreseeable, forgivable, formidable, fungible, fusible, gullible, hon, honorable, horrible, identifiable, illegible, imaginable, immiscible, immovable, impassable, impeachable, impeccable, impenetrable, impermissible, implacable, implausible, imponderable, impossible, impracticable, impregnable, impressionable, improbable, inaccessible, inadmissible, inadvisable, inalienable, inapplicable, inaudible, incalculable, incapable, incomparable, incomprehensible, incompressible, inconceivable, incorrigible, incredible, incurable, indefatigable, indefensible, indefinable, indelible, indescribable, indispensable, indistinguishable, indivisible, inedible, ineffable, ineligible, inescapable, inexcusable, inexorable, inexplicable, infallible, infeasible, inflammable, inflexible, innumerable, inoperable, insatiable, inseparable, insoluble, insufferable, intangible, intelligible, interchangeable, interminable, intolerable, invaluable, invincible, inviolable, invisible, invulnerable, irascible, irreconcilable, irremediable, irreparable, irreplaceable, irrepressible, irresponsible, irreversible, irrevocable, issuable, justifiable, knowledgeable, laudable, laughable, leasable, legible, liable, likable, likeable, livable, lovable, malleable, manageable, mandible, maneuverable, measurable, memorable, microwavable, miscible, miserable, moldable, movable, navigable, negligible, negotiable, noncallable, nondurable, nonrefundable, nonrenewable, nontaxable, nontransferable, noticeable, objectionable, observable, obtainable, operable, ostensible, palpable, parable, passable, payable, peaceable, perishable, permeable, permissible, personable, persuadable, pitiable, plausible, pleasurable, pliable, possible, practicable, preferable, probable, programmable, provable, punishable, questionable, reachable, readable, realizable, reasonable, receivable, rechargeable, recognizable, recordable, recoverable, recyclable, redeemable, reducible, refundable, reliable, remarkable, removable, renewable, repairable, repayable, replaceable, reprehensible, resealable, responsible, returnable, reusable, reversible, revocable, ridable, salable, saleable, salvageable, seasonable, sensible, serviceable, sizable, sizeable, sociable, soluble, solvable, spendable, submersible, survivable, sustainable, syllable, talkable, tangible, taxable, teachable, tenable, terrible, tolerable, traceable, tradable, tradeable, trainable, transferable, transferrable, tunable, typeable, unaffordable, unalienable, unalterable, unanswerable, unassailable, unattainable, unavailable, unavoidable, unbearable, unbelievable, unbuildable, unconscionable, uncontrollable, undeniable, understandable, undesirable, unemployable, unenforceable, unenviable, unexplainable, unfashionable, unfathomable, unfavorable, unfeasible, unflappable, unforeseeable, unforgivable, ungovernable, unimaginable, unimpeachable, uninsurable, unintelligible, unjustifiable, unknowable, unlivable, unmanageable, unmentionable, unmistakable, unobtainable, unquestionable, unreachable, unreadable, unreasonable, unrecognizable, unreliable, unremarkable, unsalable, unshakable, unsinkable, unsolvable, unspeakable, unstoppable, unsustainable, untenable, unthinkable, untouchable, untraceable, unusable, unverifiable, unwinnable, unworkable, usable, variable, venerable, verifiable, viable, visible, voluble, vulnerable, washable, wearable, winnable, workable.
3	-b u l	able, amble, assemble, babble, Babel, bauble, bible, bramble, bubble, Bumble, cable, cobble, coble, corbel, crumble, cymbal, dabble, Dibble, disable, disassemble, dissemble, double, Drabble, dribble, enable, enfeeble, ennoble, ensemble, fable, feeble, foible, fumble, gable, gamble, Garble, global, gobble, Gribble, grumble, hardscrabble, herbal, hobble, humble, ignoble, immeasurable, immobile, intertribal, jumble, kibble, label, libel, marble, mislabel, mobile, mumble, nibble, nimble, noble, nonverbal, pebble, preamble, psychobabble, quibble, rabble, ramble, reassemble, rebel, redouble, relabel, resemble, Roble, rouble, roundtable, rubble, Ruble, rumble, sable, Scrabble, scramble, scribble, shamble, Sibyl, squabble, Stabile, stable, stubble, stumble, symbol, table, thimble, timetable, treble, tremble, tribal, trouble, tubal, tumble, turntable, umbel, unable, unscramble, unserviceable, unstable, valuable, verbal, wamble, wobble.
Source: compiled by the editor (additional references); see credits.

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams
	Words within the letters "a-a-a-b-e-l-l-n-p-t-u"
	-2 letters: palatable, plantable.
	-3 letters: panatela, planulae.
	-4 letters: abluent, ballute, balneal, bullate, bullpen, palatal, patella, planate, planula, platane, plateau, tableau, tunable.
	-5 letters: ablate, ablaut, albata, alulae, apneal, atabal, balata, ballet, bateau, bullae, bullet, butane, eluant, lanate, lunate, luteal, nebula, paella, palate, paleal, pallet, peanut, penult, planet, platan, platen, pullet, unable, unbelt, upbeat.
	Words containing the letters "a-a-a-b-e-l-l-n-p-t-u"
	+2 letters: manipulatable.
	+5 letters: unpalatabilities.
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