flavorless
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Alternative forms
- flavourless (British spelling)
Etymology
Pronunciation
- (US) IPA(key): /ˈfleɪvɚləs/
- (Received Pronunciation) IPA(key): /ˈfleɪvələs/
Audio (General Australian): (file)
Adjective
flavorless (comparative more flavorless, superlative most flavorless)
- Lacking taste or flavor; without seasoning, spice, or discernible qualities of taste.
- 1876 September, “Miscellany”, in Popular Science Monthly, volume 9:
- 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.
- 1882, Nathaniel Hawthorne, chapter XVIII, in Doctor Grimshawe's Secret: A romance:
- […] 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.
- 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.
- 1902, Bret Harte, Openings in the Old Trail, IV: A Buckeye Hollow Inheritance,
- (physics) Without flavor.
- 2014, Mark A. Cunningham, Neoclassical Physics, page 241:
- 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.
Synonyms
Translations
lacking taste or flavor
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flat; lacking character or definition
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