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Unpalatable

adj, noun

Definitions

Adjective
  1. 1
    Unpleasant to the taste.

    "In one corner of the room there was a huge hearth, over which hung a stock-pot, with a not altogether unpalatable odour of hot soup emanating therefrom."

  2. 2
    Unpleasant or disagreeable. broadly, figuratively

    "But enough of this. Homely truth is unpalatable."

Adjective
  1. 1
    not pleasant or acceptable to the taste or mind wordnet
Noun
  1. 1
    Anything distasteful.

    "In the severer cases of hookworm the patient sometimes has an appetite for soil, paper, hair, clay, chalk, starch, and other unpalatables."

Etymology

Etymology 1

From un- + palatable.

Etymology 2

From un- + palatable.

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