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unpalatable
Unpalatable (adj) means having a taste that is not nice to eat or drink.
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1
Having a taste that is not nice to eat or drink.
"Experimentally, some ink has been shown to be unpalatable to fish (Wood et al. 2010) and observationally, ink can also function as an attractant to predators to give cephalopods a bit more time to escape."
— Mark Carnall, Why do cephalopods produce ink? And what's ink made of, anyway? (2017)
2
Distasteful or disagreeable.
"A plain, seemingly graceless stylist, his rather unpalatable movies, full of rabid, sloggingly orchestrated physical pain and psychic damage, picture crime as a monstrous, miasmal evil, divesting it of any glamour it ever had."
— Jack Shadoian, Dreams and Dead Ends: The American Gangster Film (2003)
"Their capacity for talking so much and saying so little is astonishing. Their verbosity is unpalatable."
— Marwan Bishara, Why Obama fails the leadership test in the Middle East (2016)
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What is the meaning of unpalatable?
"unpalatable" (adj) means having a taste that is not nice to eat or drink.
What is the opposite of unpalatable?
The opposite of "unpalatable" is palatable.
What are the different meanings of unpalatable?
"unpalatable" has 2 main meanings: 1. Having a taste that is not nice to eat or drink; 2. Distasteful or disagreeable.
