PALATABLE

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does palatable mean? 

• PALATABLE (adjective)
  The adjective PALATABLE has 1 sense:

1. acceptable to the taste or mind

  Familiarity information: PALATABLE used as an adjective is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• PALATABLE (adjective)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Acceptable to the taste or mind

Synonyms:

palatable; toothsome

Context example:

a palatable solution to the problem

Also:

appetising; appetizing (appealing to or stimulating the appetite especially in appearance or aroma)

comestible; eatable; edible (suitable for use as food)

tasty (pleasing to the sense of taste)

Antonym:

unpalatable (not pleasant or acceptable to the taste or mind)

Derivation:

palatability (the property of being acceptable to the mouth)

palatableness (acceptability to the mind or feelings)

palatableness (the property of being acceptable to the mouth)

 Context examples 

It was not, she remarked, so palatable to her, but it was the next best.

(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)

A disagreeable truth would be palatable through her lips, but I am the wretchedest being in the world at a civil falsehood.

(Emma, by Jane Austen)

Poor little souls, they will have a hard time, I'm afraid, but they won't suffer, and it will do them good, she said, producing the more palatable viands with which she had provided herself, and disposing of the bad breakfast, so that their feelings might not be hurt, a motherly little deception for which they were grateful.

(Little Women, by Louisa May Alcott)

I did hear, too, that there was a time, when sermon-making was not so palatable to you as it seems to be at present; that you actually declared your resolution of never taking orders, and that the business had been compromised accordingly.

(Pride and Prejudice, by Jane Austen)

This great philosopher freely acknowledged his own mistakes in natural philosophy, because he proceeded in many things upon conjecture, as all men must do; and he found that Gassendi, who had made the doctrine of Epicurus as palatable as he could, and the vortices of Descartes, were equally to be exploded.

(Gulliver's Travels into several remote nations of the world, by Jonathan Swift)

Thus, the researchers observed that those adolescents who reported different types of dietary restrictions (different types of diet, dieting very often, skipping breakfast, eating less frequently, etc.), along with those who were obese and those who had unhealthy behaviors unrelated to food (such as smoking or having insufficient sleep), felt less pleasure, attraction and desire to eat the highly palatable foods they were looking at (images of sweets, donuts, ice‑creams, chocolate crêpes, etc.).

(Obesity and food restrictions proven to be associated with less food enjoyment, University of Granada)