unpalatable

Etymology

Definitions

1. 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.
   • 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.
2. 2

   Unpleasant or disagreeable.

   • But enough of this. Homely truth is unpalatable.
   • 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.
3. 3

   Anything distasteful.

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

The neighborhood

• synonymdistasteful
• synonymill-flavored
• synonymrough
• synonymmawkish
• synonymundrinkable
• synonymuneatable
• synonymunpalatable
• synonymunsavory
• synonymunstomachable
• synonymyucky
• antonymdelicious
• antonyminsipid
• neighborinedible
• neighborgustable
• neighborunpleasant
• neighborbitter
• neighborunsweetened
• neighborunsweet
• neighborsour