Dictionary

flavorless en · ADJ

Pronunciation

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• /ˈfleɪvɚləs/ (US)
• /ˈfleɪvələs/ (Received-Pronunciation)

Etymology

Etymology tree Proto-Indo-European *bʰel- Proto-Indo-European *-eh₁- Proto-Indo-European *bʰleh₁-der. Proto-Italic *flāōder. Latin flō Proto-Indo-European *-tōr Proto-Italic *-tōr Latin -tor Latin flātor Vulgar Latin *flātorder. Old French flaorbor. Middle English savourinflu. Middle English flavour English flavor Proto-Indo-European *lewh₁- Proto-Indo-European *lewHs-der. Proto-Germanic *leusaną Proto-Germanic *lausaz Proto-Germanic *-lausaz Proto-West Germanic *-laus Old English -lēas Middle English -les English -less English flavorless From flavor + -less.

Meanings

1. Lacking taste or flavor; without seasoning, spice, or discernible qualities of taste.
   • […] 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:
   • 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:
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. 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:

Forms

Deriveds

flavorlessly · flavorlessness · flavorizer

Synonyms

insipid (lacking character) · insipid (lacking taste)

Translations (37)

ru без запаха (lacking taste or flavor) · fo smakkleysur (lacking taste or flavor) · sv smaklös (lacking taste or flavor) · fi mitäänsanomaton (flat; lacking character or definition) · de fad (lacking taste or flavor) · pdt schmaklooss (lacking taste or flavor) · ota یاوان (lacking taste or flavor) · grc ἄγευστος (lacking taste or flavor) · tr tatsız (lacking taste or flavor) · es insípido (lacking taste or flavor) · ru безжизненный (flat; lacking character or definition) · ota طاتسز (lacking taste or flavor) · es soso (lacking taste or flavor) · pt insosso (lacking taste or flavor) · pa ਰਸਹੀਣ (lacking taste or flavor) · mr बेचव (lacking taste or flavor) · ru вя́лый (flat; lacking character or definition) · sk bez chuti (lacking taste or flavor) · sv jolmig (lacking taste or flavor) · de fade (lacking taste or flavor) · el ακαρύκευτος (lacking taste or flavor) · tr lezzetsiz (lacking taste or flavor) · mi mākihakiha (lacking taste or flavor) · ota لذتسز (lacking taste or flavor) · es insulso (lacking taste or flavor) · cs bez chuti (lacking taste or flavor) · ru пре́сный (flat; lacking character or definition) · ru безвкусный (lacking taste or flavor) · tr sası (lacking taste or flavor) · da smagløs (lacking taste or flavor) · es chirle (lacking taste or flavor) · sv fadd (lacking taste or flavor) · de geschmacklos (lacking taste or flavor) · la insulsus (lacking taste or flavor) · pt insípido (lacking taste or flavor) · fi mauton (lacking taste or flavor) · es desaborido (lacking taste or flavor)