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# palatable

«palatable» in Mova's school dictionary: **Nice enough to eat or drink; having a pleasant taste** — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples.

### part of speech

adjective (palatable; more palatable, most palatable)

### meaning for a pupil

1) Nice enough to eat or drink; having a pleasant taste. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/P/palatable/#m1)

2) Acceptable or easy to agree with: "a more palatable idea". [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/P/palatable/#m2)

### sense 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://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/P/palatable/#x1)
- Adding honey made the porridge more palatable. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/P/palatable/#x2)
- School dinners have become more palatable this year. [tree →](https://md.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://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/P/palatable/#x4)
- The truth was not palatable, but he needed to hear it. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/P/palatable/#x5)
- Some leaves are not palatable to caterpillars. [tree →](https://md.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).

### Trees and pragmatics

[Every meaning and example of «palatable» parsed by Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/P/palatable/), each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.