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# palatable

adjective (palatable; more palatable, most palatable)

«palatable» in the English dictionary: everyday — its meanings, how the lessons use it, and examples, each with its tree on Mova.

## Everyday

1. Nice enough to eat or drink; having a pleasant taste. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/P/palatable/#m1)
2. Acceptable or easy to agree with: "a more palatable idea". [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/P/palatable/#m2)

### In the lessons

In cooking and health, palatable food tastes good enough to eat; medicine may be made palatable with sweet flavour. In formal writing and news, a palatable plan or choice is one people can accept. Opposite: unpalatable (nasty to eat or hard to accept).

### Examples

- The medicine was made palatable with strawberry flavour. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/P/palatable/#x1)
- Adding honey made the porridge more palatable. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/P/palatable/#x2)
- School dinners have become more palatable this year. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/P/palatable/#x3)
- The new bedtime rule was more palatable when we got a story too. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/P/palatable/#x4)
- The truth was not palatable, but he needed to hear it. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/P/palatable/#x5)
- Some leaves are not palatable to caterpillars. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/P/palatable/#x6)

### Note

Rather formal. Comes from "palate" (the roof of the mouth, and the sense of taste). Do not mix up palate (mouth), palette (paints) and pallet (wooden platform).

## On Mova

- [Trees and pragmatics of «palatable» in the school dictionary](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/P/palatable/): every meaning and example parsed by Mova, with its dependency tree and frames.
- [«palatable» in the school dictionary](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/dictionaries/school/w/palatable.html) on Mova free.