different between disgusting vs unpalatable

English

Pronunciation

• (Received Pronunciation, General American) IPA^(key): /d?s?k?st??/, /d?s???st??/
• (Northern England) IPA^(key): /d?s???st??/
• Hyphenation: dis?gust?ing

Adjective

disgusting (comparative disgustinger or more disgusting, superlative disgustingest or most disgusting)

1. Causing disgust; repulsive; distasteful.

   Synonyms: distasteful, gro, grody, grotty, repulsive; see also Thesaurus:unpleasant

   • 1975 December 10, P.J. Bednarski, "Tis the season to be risque in TV spots" in The Dayton Journal Herald

     But it is much more sensible and much more fun and much more disgusting to assume that the English Leather woman is really saying "All my men wear English leather or nothing at all.".

Translations

Verb

disgusting

1. present participle of disgust

English

Etymology

un- +? palatable

Adjective

unpalatable (comparative more unpalatable, superlative most unpalatable)

1. unpleasant to the taste
2. (by extension) unpleasant or disagreeable
   • 2003, Jack Shadoian, Dreams and Dead Ends: The American Gangster Film (page 196)

     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.

Synonyms

• distasteful

Translations

Noun

unpalatable (plural unpalatables)

1. Anything distasteful.
   • 1934, Your Germs and Mine (page 295)

     In the severer cases of hookworm the patient sometimes has an appetite for soil, paper, hair, clay, chalk, starch, and other unpalatables.

   • 1990, Dido Davies, Andrew Davies, William Gerhardie: A Biography (page 164)

     His wife, a small woman who walked always on high heels, borrowed Gerhardie's primus stove several times a day to cook her husband gargantuan meals of cockles, mussels, snails, and other such unpalatables.

   • 2019, Paul Williams, Andreas Krebs, The Illusion of Invincibility

     Denial and disbelief tend to be the default, not a pragmatic embracing of unthinkables and unpalatables. The way things have been is not the way they are and will soon be.