tastable
English
Alternative forms
- tasteable
Etymology
From Middle English tastable, taastable, equivalent to taste + -able. Compare Old French tastable.
Adjective
tastable (comparative more tastable, superlative most tastable)
- That can be tasted; that can be detected by one's sense of taste.
References
- 2007, Günter Radden, René Dirven, Cognitive English grammar, page 284: "Conversion predicates of perception tend to be coded as adjectives: visible, audible, palpable and tangible, but English lacks adjectives such as *smellable and *tastable for something that can be smelled or tasted."
Anagrams
- abettals, statable