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gustless

adj
/ˈɡʌstləs/

Etymology

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

  1. derived from *ǵʰew-✻
  2. derived from *gustiz✻
  3. derived from gustr — “a gust, blast”
  4. inherited from *gust✻
  5. suffixed as gustless — “gust + less”

Definitions

  1. tasteless

    tasteless; insipid

    • […] 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.
    • 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.

  2. Without gusts (of wind).

    • Except in broken country, the sand cloud seems to glide steadily over the desert like a moving carpet, and the wind is comparatively gustless.
    • Unlike fixed-wing aircraft, the rotor experiences oscillatory aerodynamic effects even in steady, gustless forward flight.
    • The bland East blows with gustless blast, And constant as this heart to thee, The Hurricane's dread months are past ;

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sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA