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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Reader Commentary, Baltimore Sun, 4 Apr. 2025
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—Cornelia C. Walther, Forbes, 17 Mar. 2025
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Reader Commentary, Baltimore Sun, 4 Apr. 2025
Union gets candid about how playing the best friend to white women leads due to her palatable mainstream look dots most of her early résumé, while Davis dishes on how few leading roles there are for women of her age and hue.
—Ronda Racha Penrice, NBC news, 31 Mar. 2025
Now, onto all the standout home deals our WWD shopping editors have already managed to ID: just the things for making spring cleaning finally palatable.
—Stacia Datskovska, WWD, 20 Mar. 2025
Proponents aim to mitigate public fears and present a more palatable image by associating it with cutting-edge AI.
—Cornelia C. Walther, Forbes, 17 Mar. 2025
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“Palatable.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/palatable. Accessed 16 Apr. 2025.
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