palatable

adj
/ˈpæl.ə.tə.bəl/UK

Etymology

Etymology tree 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 *-tḗr Proto-Indo-European *-dʰlom Proto-Indo-European *-dʰlis Proto-Italic *-ðlis Latin -bilis Latin -ābilis Old French -ablebor. Middle English -able English -able English palatable From palate + -able.

  1. derived from palatbor
  2. derived from palātumder

Definitions

  1. Pleasing to the taste, tasty.

    • For some instant noodles make a palatable, if not especially nutritious, meal.
    • The fermentation of flour by means of brewer’s or distiller’s yeast produces, if rightly managed, results far more palatable and wholesome.
  2. Tolerable, acceptable.

    • The agreement was palatable to both of them.
    • “I did hear, too, that there was a time, when sermon-making was not so palateable to you, as it seems to be at present;[…]”
    • Whether it’s palatable for the vice-chairman of Hillary’s presidential campaign to be embroiled in allegations of conflicts of interest, obtaining patronage jobs, or misrepresenting time worked remains to be seen.

The neighborhood

Vish — recursive loop

A definitional loop anchored at palatable. Each word in the ring is defined by the next; follow the chain far enough and it folds back on itself. Scroll to it and watch.

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A definitional loop anchored at palatable. Each word in the ring appears in the definition of the next; follow the chain far enough and it folds back on itself.

8 hops · closes at palatable

curated · pre-corpus. live cycle detection across the full graph is the next major milestone.

sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA