unpalatable adjective 2noun 1forms 3 adjective2 •Unpleasant to the taste.In one corner of the room there was a huge hearth, over which hung a stock-pot, with a not altogether unpalatable odour of hot soup emanating therefrom. — 1905 •(figurative) Unpleasant or disagreeable.But enough of this. Homely truth is unpalatable. — 1876 noun1 •Anything distasteful.In the severer cases of hookworm the patient sometimes has an appetite for soil, paper, hair, clay, chalk, starch, and other unpalatables. — 1934 formsunpalatables · more unpalatable · most unpalatable