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flavorless

  • /ˈfleɪvɚləs/ US
  • /ˈfleɪvələs/ UK

adjective more flavorless · most flavorless · flavourless

  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.

    Similar: insipid

  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.

    Similar: 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.

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adj lacking taste or flavor

Españolsoso, desaborido, chirle, insulso, insípido
Portuguêsinsípido, insosso
Deutschfad, fade, geschmacklos
Ελληνικάακαρύκευτος akarýkeftos
Русскийбезвкусный bezvkusnyj, без запаха bez zapaxa

adj flat; lacking character or definition

Русскийпре́сный présnyj, безжизненный bezžiznennyj, вя́лый vjályj

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@misc{flavorless_2026,
  title = {flavorless},
  howpublished = {Wiktionary, via Micwyn},
  year = {2026},
  url = {https://micwyn.com/word/flavorless},
  urldate = {2026-11-06}
}