tastable

English

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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.”

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