Meaning

2 senses
  1. Unpleasant to the taste.

    geschmacklos, unappetitlich

    невку́сныйnevkúsnyj

    несмачни́йnesmačnýj

    not pleasant or acceptable to the taste or mind

  2. (broadly, figuratively)Unpleasant or disagreeable.

    unangenehm, abstoßend, widerwärtig

Examples

3 sentences
  1. This meat is undercooked and unpalatable.

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  2. My brother loves damsons both cooked and raw, but I find them unpalatable when not made into jam.

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  3. Politics is not the art of the possible. It consists in choosing between the disastrous and the unpalatable.

    Політика — це не мистецтво можливого. Вона полягає у виборі між катастрофічним і неперетравлюваним.

    deDie Politik ist nicht die Kunst des Machbaren, sondern besteht darin, zwischen dem Fatalen und dem Schalen zu wählen.

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Translations

7 languages
Українська
By meaning 1
unpleasant to the taste:
Русский
By meaning 1
unpleasant to the taste:
Deutsch
By meaning 2
unpleasant to the taste:
(by extension) unpleasant or disagreeable:

Forms

more unpalatable, most unpalatable
Comparativemore unpalatable Lesson
Superlativemost unpalatable Lesson

regular

Synonyms

10 synonyms

Antonyms

3 antonyms

Word family

4 related words

See also

neighbours in the dictionary
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