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flavorless

UK/ˈfleɪvələs/US/ˈfleɪvɚləs/

flavorless adjective: lacking taste or flavor; without seasoning, spice, or discernible qualities of taste.

Adjective

flavorless (comparative more flavorless, superlative most flavorless)

  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.1876 September, “Miscellany”, in Popular Science Monthly, volume 9
    • […] and as for fruit, the high garden wall was lined with pear trees, spread out flat against it, where they managed to produce a cold, flavorless fruit, a good deal akin to cucumbers.1882, Nathaniel Hawthorne, chapter XVIII, in Doctor Grimshawe's Secret: A romance
    Synonyms:
    insipid
  2. Flat; lacking character or definition.
    • […] 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.1902, Bret Harte, Openings in the Old Trail, IV: A Buckeye Hollow Inheritance
    Synonyms:
    insipid
  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.2014, Mark A. Cunningham, Neoclassical Physics, page 241

flavorless meaning in Marathi and Punjabi

flavorless in Marathi

lacking taste or flavor
बेचव becav

flavorless in Punjabi

lacking taste or flavor
ਰਸਹੀਣ rashīṇ

Synonyms of flavorless

Forms of flavorless

comparativemore flavorless
superlativemost flavorless
alternative formflavourless

Origin of flavorless

From flavor + -less.

Words formed from flavorless

Questions about flavorless

What does flavorless mean?
Flavorless means lacking taste or flavor; without seasoning, spice, or discernible qualities of taste.
What is flavorless in Marathi?
Flavorless in Marathi is बेचव (becav). See Flavorless meaning in Marathi.
What part of speech is flavorless?
Flavorless is an adjective.
How do you pronounce flavorless?
Flavorless is pronounced /ˈfleɪvɚləs/ (US).

Words near flavorless in the dictionary

  1. flavorized
  2. flavorizer
  3. flavorizers
  4. flavorizes
  5. flavorizing
  6. flavorless
  7. flavorlessly
  8. flavorlessness
  9. flavorous
  10. flavors
  11. flavors of the month

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