different between nauseating vs unpalatable

English

Adjective

nauseating (comparative more nauseating, superlative most nauseating)

1. causing disgust, revulsion or loathing
2. causing nausea

Synonyms

• nauseous

Translations

See also

• nauseated

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.