flavorless

Etymology

Definitions

1. 1

   Lacking taste or flavor

   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.
   • […] 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.
2. 2

   Flat

   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. 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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