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)

1. That can be tasted; that can be detected by one's sense of taste.

References

• Günter Radden; René Dirven (2007), 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