Flavorless

//ˈfleɪvɚləs// adj

adj ·Uncommon ·Advanced level

Definitions

Adjective
  1. 1
    Lacking taste or flavor; without seasoning, spice, or discernible qualities of taste.

    "Salt oysters, on being transferred to fresh water, are "fattened" in the course of two or three days ; if allowed to remain longer they become lean again, and are flavorless."

  2. 2
    Flat; lacking character or definition.

    "1902, Bret Harte, Openings in the Old Trail, IV: A Buckeye Hollow Inheritance, […] and the gravestone of its dead owner on the hill was no more flavorless of his personality than was this plain house in which he had lived and died."

  3. 3
    Without flavor.

    "On the other hand, Pauli had just proposed a massless, chargeless, colorless, flavorless particle whose sole reason for existence was to preserve the principle of momentum conservation."

Adjective
  1. 1
    lacking taste or flavor or tang wordnet

Synonyms

All synonyms
insipidinsipidblanddeaddilutediluted

Example

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"This may be pilaf, but it's completely flavorless."

Etymology

From flavor + -less.

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