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gustless en · ADJ · etymology 1

Pronunciation

• /ˈɡʌstləs/

Etymology

From Latin gustus (“a tasting”), and suffix -less.

Meanings

1. (obsolete) tasteless; insipid
   • Graceful and smooth-tongued, the model wife moves through her two scenes with the level charm belonging to Mr. Phillips's gustless but mellow blank verse, to the accentless but even-knit pattern of his plot. 1902, Gabriele D'Annunzio, The Dream of a Spring Morning, page 132:
   • […] they might after give the expressed and less useful part of the cods and remaining pulp unto their swine: which, being no gustless or unsatisfying offal, might be well desired by the prodigal in his hunger. 1683, Sir Thomas Browne, Observations Upon Several Plants Mentioned In Scripture:
   • Again, it is a base abject temper, speaks a mind sunk and lost in carnality, and that, having dethroned and abjured reason, hath abandoned itself to the hurry of vile appetite and sold its liberty and sovereignty for the insipid, gustless pleasures of sense. 1870, The living temple:
   • She placed her hands on her hips and her stout boots wide apart and bent her body and gaped her mouth and stared at this man who was as gustless as skimmed milk and unsatisfying as water. 1933, Caradoc Evans, Wasps, page 16:

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Relateds

disgust · degustation

gustless en · ADJ · etymology 2

Pronunciation

• /ˈɡʌstləs/

Etymology

From gust + -less.

Meanings

1. Without gusts (of wind).
   • Unlike fixed-wing aircraft, the rotor experiences oscillatory aerodynamic effects even in steady, gustless forward flight. 1957, Journal of the Aeronautical Sciences, page 81:
   • A wind sock lay gustless upon a pole. 1992, Jennifer Finney Boylan, James Finney Boylan, The planets, →ISBN, page 32:
   • Except in broken country, the sand cloud seems to glide steadily over the desert like a moving carpet, and the wind is comparatively gustless. 1954, Ralph Alger Bagnold, The Physics of Blown Sand and Desert Dunes, page 11:
   • The bland East blows with gustless blast, And constant as this heart to thee, The Hurricane's dread months are past ; 1866, George H Strutt, Poems, chiefly lyrical, compiled and arranged by G. H. Strutt, page 187:

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