palatable
palatable
Definition
pal·at·able (pal′it ə bəl)
adjective
- pleasant or acceptable to the taste; fit to be eaten or drunk
- acceptable to the mind
Etymology: palat(e) + -able
pal′·at·abil′·ity noun or pal′·at·able·ness
pal′·at·ably adverb
palatable
Synonyms
palatable
Usage Examples
Preposition: for
- audience: If it helps make The Tormented more palatable for Western audiences tho, then fair enough.
Adjective complement with noun phrase
- make: The tumbling helps dilute the salt to make the chicken palatable.
- find: Many pet owners also argue that their dogs find organic food more palatable.
Used with adjective complement
- seem: I leave that question hanging, for none of the plausible answers seems palatable.
- become: In a world where profit usually beats principle, how can socially responsible investment become palatable?
- make: The FA Cup exit at Lewes was made more palatable by the incredible season enjoyed by Jimmy Quinn's side.
- find: There is food for thought there that not all will find palatable.
- look: Dry food looks less palatable, but many cats eat it quite readily.
Modifying Another Word
- politically: The issue is real urbanism, not some polite, politically palatable " lite " version thereof.
- highly: Children like highly palatable, high fat, high sugar, high salt foods.
- extremely: There are also local wines which are extremely palatable.
- particularly: Many of the native shrub willows are even more limited in range and particularly palatable to animals.
- very: The berries also make a very palatable jelly, often served with meat.
- quite: However, his music, along with the stories his pieces are set to, are quite palatable for mini opera buffs.
Modifies a noun
- diet: Including sugar containing foods may have allowed for a more palatable low-fat diet.
- specie: Other, less palatable species have moved into the ecological niche they once occupied.
- alternative: The tablets can be quite large and a liquid drink is a palatable alternative.
- food: On balance, I'm sure that palatable food can almost always be achieved within the narrow functional confines of a pub.
- option: Renting is starting to look like a palatable option!
- form: But unconsciously he was seeking to reduce horror into a comprehensible and somehow palatable form.
