Word Meanings - PALATABLE - Book Publishers vocabulary database

Agreeable to the palate or taste; savory; hence, acceptable; pleasing; as, palatable food; palatable advice.

Possible synonyms: (Same meaning words of PALATABLE)

• Sapid
• Tasty
• relishing
• savory
• piquant
• palatable
• toothsome
• delicious
• Tasteful
• agreeable
• tasty
• elegant
• refined

Related words: (words related to PALATABLE)

• TASTY
  1. Having a good taste; -- applied to persons; as, a tasty woman. See Taste, n., 5. 2. Being in conformity to the principles of good taste; elegant; as, tasty furniture; a tasty dress.
• RELISHABLE
  Capable of being relished; agreeable to the taste; gratifying.
• SAPID
  Having the power of affecting the organs of taste; possessing savor, or flavor. Camels, to make the water sapid, do raise the mud with their feet. Sir T. Browne.
• REFINED
  Freed from impurities or alloy; purifed; polished; cultured; delicate; as; refined gold; refined language; refined sentiments. Refined wits who honored poesy with their pens. Peacham. -- Re*fin"ed*ly (r, adv. -- Re*fin"ed*ness, n.
• PIQUANT
  Stimulating to the taste; giving zest; tart; sharp; pungent; as, a piquant anecdote. "As piquant to the tongue as salt." Addison. "Piquant railleries." Gov. of Tongue.
• REFINEMENT
  1. The act of refining, or the state of being refined; as, the refinement or metals; refinement of ideas. The more bodies are of kin to spirit in subtilty and refinement, the more diffusive are they. Norris. From the civil war to this time, I doubt
• REFIND
  To find again; to get or experience again. Sandys.
• REFINER
  One who, or that which, refines.
• SAPIDITY
  The quality or state of being sapid; taste; savor; savoriness. Whether one kind of sapidity is more effective than another. M. S. Lamson.
• SAVORY
  The chewing flocks Had ta'en their supper on the savory herb. Milton.
• PIQUANTLY
  In a piquant manner.
• DELICIOUSNESS
  1. The quality of being delicious; as, the deliciousness of a repast. 2. Luxury. "To drive away all superfluity and deliciousness." Sir T. North.
• DELICIOUS
  1. Affording exquisite pleasure; delightful; most sweet or grateful to the senses, especially to the taste; charming. Some delicious landscape. Coleridge. One draught of spring's delicious air. Keble. Were not his words delicious Tennyson.
• PALATABLE
  Agreeable to the palate or taste; savory; hence, acceptable; pleasing; as, palatable food; palatable advice.
• PALATABLENESS
  The quality or state of being agreeable to the taste; relish; acceptableness.
• AGREEABLENESS
  1. The quality of being agreeable or pleasing; that quality which gives satisfaction or moderate pleasure to the mind or senses. That author . . . has an agreeableness that charms us. Pope. 2. The quality of being agreeable or suitable;
• RELISH
  1. To taste or eat with pleasure; to like the flavor of; to partake of with gratification; hence, to enjoy; to be pleased with or gratified by; to experience pleasure from; as, to relish food. Now I begin to relish thy advice. Shak. He knows how
• REFINE
  1. To become pure; to be cleared of feculent matter. So the pure, limpid stream, when foul with stains, Works itself clear, and, as it runs, refines. Addison. 2. To improve in accuracy, delicacy, or excellence. Chaucer refined on Boccace,
• ELEGANTLY
  In a manner to please nice taste; with elegance; with due symmetry; richly.
• DELICIOUSLY
  Delightfully; as, to feed deliciously; to be deliciously entertained.
• IMPALATABLE
  Unpalatable.
• DISAGREEABLENESS
  The state or quality of being; disagreeable; unpleasantness.
• PREFINE
  To limit beforehand. Knolles.
• PREFINITE
  Prearranged. " Set and prefinite time." Holland.
• OCTASTYLE
  See OCTOSTYLE
• OVERELEGANT
  Too elegant. Johnson.
• PENTASTYLE
  Having five columns in front; -- said of a temple or portico in classical architecture. -- n.
• DISTASTEFUL
  1. Unpleasant or disgusting to the taste; nauseous; loathsome. 2. Offensive; displeasing to the feelings; disagreeable; as, a distasteful truth. Distasteful answer, and sometimes unfriendly actions. Milton. 3. Manifesting distaste or
• OVERREFINE
  To refine too much.