Definitions

from The Century Dictionary.

  • Capable of being tasted; pleasant to the taste; savory; relishing.

from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.

  • adjective Capable of worthy of being tasted; savory; relishing.

from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.

  • adjective That can be tasted, that can be detected by one's sense of taste.

Etymologies

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taste +‎ -able

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Examples

  • Dodgers go down in the top of the ninth and this is when you sense a helpless scattering, it is tastable in the air, audible in the lone-wolf calls from high in the stands.

    Underworld Don Delillo 2008

  • Dodgers go down in the top of the ninth and this is when you sense a helpless scattering, it is tastable in the air, audible in the lone-wolf calls from high in the stands.

    Underworld Don Delillo 2008

  • Dodgers go down in the top of the ninth and this is when you sense a helpless scattering, it is tastable in the air, audible in the lone-wolf calls from high in the stands.

    Underworld Don Delillo 2008

  • Which connects me to simply low & sweet and nearly tastable leather or comfort scents, like PG L'Ombre Fauve, Lancome Cuir de Lancome.

    Mental Rehearsal ScentScelf 2008

  • Which connects me to simply low & sweet and nearly tastable leather or comfort scents, like PG L'Ombre Fauve, Lancome Cuir de Lancome.

    Archive 2008-09-01 ScentScelf 2008

  • 'Tis not improbable also, but that our _taste_ may be very much improv'd either by _preparing_ our taste for the Body, as, after eating _bitter_ things, _Wine_, or other _Vinous liquors_, are more sensibly tasted; or else by _preparing_ Bodies for our tast; as the dissolving of Metals with acid Liquors, make them tastable, which were before altogether insipid; thus _Lead_ becomes _sweeter_ then Sugar, and _Silver_ more _bitter_ then

    Micrographia Some Physiological Descriptions of Minute Bodies Made by Magnifying Glasses with Observations and Inquiries Thereupon Robert Hooke 1669

  • "taste": the sense organ, the sensation aroused, and the properties of sapid, or tastable, substances (33).

    Tastes and Pleasures 2007

  • Everything’s got better (tastable, hot, fast, no more long lines.)

    If You're Looking for the Downtown Bulgogi Cart… It's in Midtown | Midtown Lunch: Downtown NYC 2009

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