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Unpalatable
unpalatable
1. If you describe an idea as unpalatable, you mean that you find it unpleasant and difficult to accept. It is an unpalatable fact that rape makes a good news story... It was only then that I began to learn the unpalatable truth about John. = distasteful ADJ 2. If you describe food as unpalatable, you mean that it is so unpleasant that you can hardly eat it. ...a lump of dry, unpalatable cheese. ADJ
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1.
adjective Date: 1682 1. not palatable ; distasteful ~ wines 2. unpleasant, disagreeable raising income tax rates is politically ~ — Mary Rowland • unpalatability noun ...Merriam-Webster Collegiate Dictionary
2.
adj. 1 not pleasant to taste. 2 (of an idea, suggestion, etc.) disagreeable, distasteful. Derivatives unpalatability n. unpalatableness n. ...Толковый словарь английского языка Oxford English Reference
3.
1. невкусный, противный unpalatable medicine —- противное лекарство 2. неприятный they must be told the truth, however unpalatable it may be —- им надо сказать правду, как бы неприятна она не была ...Новый большой англо-русский словарь
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5.
~ adj formal 1 an unpalatable fact or idea is very unpleasant and difficult to accept (We were trying to avoid the unpalatable truth - that the whole plan had failed.) 2 unpalatable food tastes unpleasant - unpalatably adv ...Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
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