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underflavored

underflavored adjective: lacking sufficient flavor.

Adjective

underflavored (comparative more underflavored, superlative most underflavored)

  1. Lacking sufficient flavor.
    • Among the entrees, the only serious disappointment was a short rib, which should have been called a long rib — a nine-inch Flintstone-class bone encircled at the waist by a four-inch band of stringy, underflavored meat.2009 June 7, David Corcoran, “Ideas That Translate Into Full Local Flavors”, in New York Times

Forms of underflavored

comparativemore underflavored
superlativemost underflavored
alternative formunderflavoured

Origin of underflavored

From under- + flavored.

Questions about underflavored

What does underflavored mean?
Underflavored means lacking sufficient flavor.
What part of speech is underflavored?
Underflavored is an adjective.

Words near underflavored in the dictionary

  1. underfixes
  2. underfixing
  3. underflannel
  4. underflannels
  5. underflavor
  6. underflavored
  7. underflavors
  8. underflavour
  9. underflavours
  10. underfleshed
  11. underflip

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