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Definition: Flavourless |
FlavourlessAdjective1. 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. |
Date "flavourless" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1889. (references) |
Synonyms: FlavourlessSynonyms: bland (adj), flat (adj), flavorless (adj), insipid (adj), savorless (adj), savourless (adj), vapid (adj). (additional references) |
| Synonyms by domain: insipid (food & agriculture), tasteless (food & agriculture). |
| Title | Author | Quote |
Sylvie and Bruno | Carroll, Lewis | It was a perfectly flavourless Ghost |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references. | ||
| "Flavourless" is generally used as an adjective (general or positive) -- approximately 100.00% of the time. "Flavourless" is used about 7 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted) |
| Parts of Speech | Percent | Usage per 100 Million Words | Rank in English |
| Adjective (general or positive) | 100% | 7 | 133,076 |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
| Language | Translations for "flavourless"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | |
Albanian | pa kripë (flavorless), pa erë (flavorless, odorless, odourless, windless), i pashije (dowdy, drab, flavorless, frumpish, gaudy, inelegant, insipid, mawkish, rococo, savorless, savourless). (various references) | |
Arabic | عديم النكهة (flat, flavorless, tasteless), بدون نكهة (flavorless). (various references) | |
Bulgarian | безвкусно (flashily, flavorless), безвкусен (conspicuous, flavorless, gaudy, gingerbread, insipid, meretricious, savorless, savourless, tasteless, tawdry, tinsel, twopence colored, twopence coloured, unpalatable, unsavory, unsavoury, vapid, watery, wishy washy), без миризма (flavorless, inodorous, odorless, odourless). (various references) | |
Czech | bez příchuti (flavorless). (various references) | |
French | sans saveur (flavorless). (various references) | |
German | fade (insipid, flavorless, tastelessly, tasteless), geschmacklos (cheesy, in bad taste, tasteless, tastelessly). (various references) | |
Greek | ανούσιοσ (flat, flavorless, insipid, jejune, milk and water, namby-pamby, savorless, tasteless, unpalatable, unsavory, unsavoury, vapid, zestless). (various references) | |
Hebrew | תפל (flat, insipid, tasteless, unsalted, unsavoury, vapid), חסר טעם (tasteless, tawdry). (various references) | |
Hungarian | ízetlen (tasteless, insipid). (various references) | |
Italian | insipido (flavorless). (various references) | |
Manx | gyn blass (savourless, tasteless). (various references) | |
Pig Latin | avourlessflay.(various references) | |
Portuguese | sem sabor (flavorless, insipid, tasteless), sem paladar (flavorless, tasteless), insípido (tasteless). (various references) | |
Romanian | fãrã savoare (flavorless), fãrã aromã (flavorless), necondimentat (flavorless, mild, unseasoned), insipid (flat, flavorless, inane, insipid, mawkish, milk and water, tame, tasteless, vapid, wishy washy), anost (dull, flat, flavorless, ineffectual, tedious, vapid). (various references) | |
Russian | безвкусный (tasteless), без запаха (inodorous, odourless), пресный (unleavened). (various references) | |
Serbo-Croatian | bezukusan (flavorless, savorless, savourless, tasteless), bezmirisan (flavorless, savorless, savourless). (various references) | |
Spanish | soso (flavorless). (various references) | |
Swedish | fadd (flat, insipid, vapid), luktfri (flavorless, inodorous, odorless, odourless). (various references) | |
Turkish | tatsız (arid, chippy, disagreeable, distasteful, dull, dusty, flat, flavorless, frail, insipid, milk and water, objectionable, queasy, savorless, savourless, sticky, tame, tasteless, ugly, unamusing, uncomfortable, uncongenial, ungracious, unpalatable, unpleasant, unsweetened, unwelcome, vapid, watery), lezzetsiz (flavorless, insipid, savorless, savourless, tasteless, unsavory, unsavoury, vapid). (various references) | |
Ukrainian | несмачний (flavorless, insipid, tasteless, unsavoury, vapid). (various references) | |
Vietnamese | nhạt nhẽo (cold, cool, coolish, coolly, gelid, savourless, tedious, unsavoury, vapid), không có mùi vị. (various references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references. | ||
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "a-e-f-l-l-o-r-s-s-u-v" | |
-1 letter: flavorless. | |
-2 letters: flourless. | |
-3 letters: allovers, alveolus, flavours, overalls, overfull, refusals, safroles. | |
-4 letters: allover, allures, arouses, avulses, earfuls, fallers, favours, favuses, ferulas, flavors, flavour, florals, fullers, furless, lassoer, laurels, loafers, loessal, louvers, louvres, oarless, ourself, overall, refalls, refusal, safrole, safrols, salvers, salvoes, salvors, saurels, savours, serosal, servals, slavers, solvers, valours, valuers, varuses, velours. | |
-5 letters: allure, arouse. | |
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