palatable
acceptable to the taste
TRANSLATION
palatable = genießbar, schmackhaft palatable (fig.) = angenehm, akzeptabel --- GOOGLE INDEX palatable: approximately 2,300,000 Google hits
STATISTICS
IN THE PRESS
Bitter medicines and foods could be made more PALATABLE with the addition of a natural chemical to make them taste sweeter.
(BBC News)
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Good lies need a leavening of truth to make them PALATABLE.
- Scottish author and poet William McIlvanney
(BBC News)
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Good lies need a leavening of truth to make them PALATABLE.
- Scottish author and poet William McIlvanney
Did you
know?
palatable
adjective
- describes food or drink that has a pleasant taste
- acceptable (fig.)
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Palatable stems from "palate," which means the roof of the mouth (from the Latin palatum), thus the reference to taste. Palatable can be applied literally to describe something that has an acceptable taste or it can be used in a figurative sense as a synonym for acceptable.
For those who might be familiar with "Palatschinken," a delightful crepe-like dessert commonly served in Austria and southern Germany, it would be tempting to think that this word is related to palate/palatable. Surprisingly, the etymology has nothing to do with the palate. Nor does it have anything to do with "Schinken," the German word for ham.
The less palatable explanation is that it was borrowed from the Czech palacinka, which stems from the Hungarian palacsinta and the Romanian placinta (a cake, a pie), where it ultimately derives from the Latin placenta (a flat cake), a word of Greek origin.
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SYNONYMS
(tasty)
appetizing, delicious, flavourful, mouth-watering, scrumptious, yummy
(acceptable)
agreeable, okay, passable, pleasant, satisfactory, tolerable
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SMUGGLE OWAD into today's conversation
"I find the house-wine in this restaurant quite palatable."
adjective
- describes food or drink that has a pleasant taste
- acceptable (fig.)
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Palatable stems from "palate," which means the roof of the mouth (from the Latin palatum), thus the reference to taste. Palatable can be applied literally to describe something that has an acceptable taste or it can be used in a figurative sense as a synonym for acceptable.
For those who might be familiar with "Palatschinken," a delightful crepe-like dessert commonly served in Austria and southern Germany, it would be tempting to think that this word is related to palate/palatable. Surprisingly, the etymology has nothing to do with the palate. Nor does it have anything to do with "Schinken," the German word for ham.
The less palatable explanation is that it was borrowed from the Czech palacinka, which stems from the Hungarian palacsinta and the Romanian placinta (a cake, a pie), where it ultimately derives from the Latin placenta (a flat cake), a word of Greek origin.
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SYNONYMS
(tasty)
appetizing, delicious, flavourful, mouth-watering, scrumptious, yummy
(acceptable)
agreeable, okay, passable, pleasant, satisfactory, tolerable
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SMUGGLE OWAD into today's conversation
"I find the house-wine in this restaurant quite palatable."
