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Flavorless

Definition: Flavorless

Flavorless

Adjective

1. Lacking taste or flavor or tang; "a bland diet"; "insipid hospital food"; "flavorless supermarket tomatoes"; "vapid beer"; "vapid tea".

Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
 

 

Synonyms: Flavorless

Synonyms: bland (adj), flat (adj), flavourless (adj), insipid (adj), savorless (adj), savourless (adj), vapid (adj). (additional references)

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Crosswords: Flavorless

English words defined with "flavorless": box huckleberryGaylussacia brachycera. (references)

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Photo Album: Flavorless

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Fifty years ago, frozen orange juice was just a flavorless commercial flop. The only orange juice you could get back then was either squeezed from fresh oranges, mixed from a relatively tasteless concentrate, or poured from a can-and it tasted like a can! P. Credit: USDA ARS News; photo by Scott Bauer..

Source: pictures compiled by the editor from various references; see picture credits.

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Modern Translation: Flavorless

Language Translations for "flavorless"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses.

Albanian

  

pa kripë (flavourless), pa erë (flavourless, odorless, odourless, windless), i pashije (dowdy, drab, flavourless, frumpish, gaudy, inelegant, insipid, mawkish, rococo, savorless, savourless). (various references)

   

Arabic 

  

‏عديم النكهة (flat, flavourless, tasteless), ‏بدون نكهة (flavourless). (various references)

   

Bulgarian 

  

безвкусно (flashily, flavourless), безвкусен (conspicuous, flavourless, gaudy, gingerbread, insipid, meretricious, savorless, savourless, tasteless, tawdry, tinsel, twopence colored, twopence coloured, unpalatable, unsavory, unsavoury, vapid, watery, wishy washy), без миризма (flavourless, inodorous, odorless, odourless). (various references)

   

Czech

  

bez příchuti (flavourless). (various references)

   

French

  

fade (flavourless), sans saveur (flavourless), sans goût (flavourless). (various references)

   

German

  

fade (insipid, flavourless, tastelessly, tasteless). (various references)

   

Greek 

  

ανούσιοσ (flat, flavourless, insipid, jejune, milk and water, namby-pamby, savorless, tasteless, unpalatable, unsavory, unsavoury, vapid, zestless). (various references)

   

Hungarian

  

ízetlen (tasteless, flavourless, insipid), aromátlan (flavourless). (various references)

   

Italian

  

insipido (flavourless). (various references)

   

Pig Latin

  

avorlessflay.(various references)

   

Portuguese

  

sem sabor (flavourless, insipid, tasteless), sem paladar (flavourless, tasteless), insípido (tasteless). (various references)

   

Romanian

  

fãrã savoare (flavourless), fãrã aromã (flavourless), necondimentat (flavourless, mild, unseasoned), insipid (flat, flavourless, inane, insipid, mawkish, milk and water, tame, tasteless, vapid, wishy washy), anost (dull, flat, flavourless, ineffectual, tedious, vapid). (various references)

   

Russian 

  

безвкусный (tasteless), без запаха (inodorous, odourless), пресный (unleavened). (various references)

   

Serbo-Croatian

  

bezukusan (flavourless, savorless, savourless, tasteless), bezmirisan (flavourless, savorless, savourless). (various references)

   

Spanish

  

soso (flavourless). (various references)

   

Swedish

  

fadd (flat, insipid, vapid), luktfri (flavourless, inodorous, odorless, odourless). (various references)

   

Turkish

  

tatsız (arid, chippy, disagreeable, distasteful, dull, dusty, flat, flavourless, frail, insipid, milk and water, objectionable, queasy, savorless, savourless, sticky, tame, tasteless, ugly, unamusing, uncomfortable, uncongenial, ungracious, unpalatable, unpleasant, unsweetened, unwelcome, vapid, watery), lezzetsiz (flavourless, insipid, savorless, savourless, tasteless, unsavory, unsavoury, vapid). (various references)

   

Ukrainian

  

несмачний (flavourless, insipid, tasteless, unsavoury, vapid). (various references)

Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

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Anagrams: Flavorless

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

Words within the letters "a-e-f-l-l-o-r-s-s-v"

-2 letters: allovers, overalls, safroles.

-3 letters: allover, fallers, flavors, florals, lassoer, loafers, loessal, oarless, overall, refalls, safrole, safrols, salvers, salvoes, salvors, serosal, servals, slavers, solvers.

-4 letters: faller, falser, farles, favors, fellas, flares, flavor, florae, floral, floras, folles, fossae, foveal, foveas, lasers, lavers, lessor, loafer, loaves, loreal, losels, losers, lovers, rassle, ravels, refall, safrol, salols, salver.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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