palatable
adjective
pal·at·able
ˈpa-lə-tə-bəl 
1
: agreeable to the palate or taste
The restaurant's chicken dishes are quite palatable.
2
: agreeable or acceptable to the mind
attempted to make physics palatable to a broader range of students
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Palatable comes from palate, a word for the roof of the mouth, which itself comes from Latin palatum. The palate was once thought of as the seat of the sense of taste, so the word eventually came to mean "sense of taste," or broadly, "liking."
Examples of palatable in a Sentence
a less than palatable beer
I did not find the idea of moving again very palatable.
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That means the $1,000 cellphone would cost a more palatable $1,200, given the 20% tariffs imposed earlier this year.
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Laurent Belsie, Christian Science Monitor, 16 Apr. 2025
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Finally, food aversions and nausea, particularly during the first trimester, may make certain foods more palatable than others.
—Raja Krishnamoorthi, MSNBC Newsweek, 9 Apr. 2025
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Laurent Belsie, Christian Science Monitor, 16 Apr. 2025
Wakim is really good at walking the line between pushing boundaries and being largely palatable on a broadcast sketch show.
—Rosa Escandon, Forbes.com, 13 Apr. 2025
New York had rested three key cogs in OG Anunoby, Mitchell Robinson and Josh Hart, making the loss palatable.
—Kristian Winfield, New York Daily News, 12 Apr. 2025
Finally, food aversions and nausea, particularly during the first trimester, may make certain foods more palatable than others.
—Raja Krishnamoorthi, MSNBC Newsweek, 9 Apr. 2025
See All Example Sentences for palatable
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“Palatable.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/palatable. Accessed 29 Apr. 2025.
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