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Savourless

Definition: Savourless

Savourless

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.
 

Date "savourless" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1867. (references)

"Savourless" is a common misspelling or typo for: savorless.

Synonyms: Savourless

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

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Modern Translations: Savourless

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

Albanian

  

i pashije (dowdy, drab, flavorless, flavourless, frumpish, gaudy, inelegant, insipid, mawkish, rococo, savorless). (various references)

   

Arabic 

  

‏مسيخ (savorless, tasteless, vapid), ‏لا طعم له (insipid, savorless, tasteless), ‏خالي من النكهة (savorless, tame). (various references)

   

Bulgarian 

  

безвкусен (conspicuous, flavorless, flavourless, gaudy, gingerbread, insipid, meretricious, savorless, tasteless, tawdry, tinsel, twopence colored, twopence coloured, unpalatable, unsavory, unsavoury, vapid, watery, wishy washy). (various references)

   

French

  

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

   

Hungarian

  

íztelen. (various references)

   

Manx

  

gyn blass (flavourless, tasteless). (various references)

   

Pig Latin

  

avourlesssay

   

Portuguese

  

sem graça (clumsy, flatly, graceless, ill-favored, ill-favoured, milker, muzzy, platitudinous, savorless, tubby, uncomely, unshapely, unsightly), insosso (milk and water, savorless, wishy washy), insípido (flat, flavorless, flavourless, frigidity, halfback, insipid, jejune, mawseed, milk and water, muzzy, pointless, sapless, savorless, stale, tasteless, uninspired, vapid, washy, watery, wishy washy). (various references)

   

Romanian

  

sãlciu (brackish, savorless). (various references)

   

Russian 

  

пресный (bland, flavorless, flavourless, fresh, savorless, sweet, tasteless, unleavened, vapid). (various references)

   

Serbo-Croatian

  

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

   

Spanish

  

soso (dull, flavorless, flavourless, halfbaked, insipid, namby-pamby, savorless, tasteless, tastelessly, troubled, undistinctive, undynamic, washy, wishy washy). (various references)

   

Swedish

  

smaklös (bland, flat, in bad taste, indelicate, insipid, savorless, tasteless, tawdry, vapid). (various references)

   

Turkish

  

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

   

Ukranian 

  

прісний (savorless). (various references)

   

Vietnamese 

  

vô vị (arid, banal, drily, dry, dryasdust, dryly, dusty, insipid, milk and water, platitudinarian, platitudinous, tame, tasteless, unsavoury, watery), nhạt nhẽo (cold, cool, coolish, coolly, flavourless, gelid, tedious, unsavoury, vapid), không có hương vị. (various references)

Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

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Anagrams: Savourless

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

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

-1 letter: savorless.

-2 letters: lassoers.

-3 letters: arouses, assures, avulses, lassoer, lassoes, lessors, louvers, louvres, oarless, rassles, salvers, salvoes, salvors, saroses, saurels, savours, serosal, serosas, servals, slavers, solvers, valours, valuers, varuses, velours.

-4 letters: arouse, assure, avulse, lasers, lasses, lassos, lavers, lessor, loaves, losers, losses, louses, louver, louvre, lovers, ousels, ovular, ovules, rassle, ravels, rouses, salver, salves, salvor, salvos, saurel, savers, savors, savour, selvas, serosa, serous, serval, servos, slaver, slaves, soaves, soleus, solver, solves, sorels, souses, suaver, urases, valors, valour, valses, valuer, values, velars, velour, versal, versos, versus.

-5 letters: aloes, arles, arose, arses, arvos, asses, aures, avers, earls, euros, laevo, lares, laser, lases, lasso, laver, laves, lears, loess, lores, loser, loses, lours, louse, lover, loves, lures, oases, oaves, orals, orles, ousel, ovals, overs, ovule, rales, rases, ravel, raves, reals, roles, roses, roues, rouse, roves, rules, ruses, sales, salve, salvo, saros, sauls, saver, saves, savor, seals, sears, selva, seral, servo, slave, sloes, slues, slurs, soars, soave, solar, soles, solus, solve, soras, sorel, sores, sorus, souls, sours, souse, suave, suers, sural, suras, ulvas, urase, ureal, ureas, ursae, users, uveal, uveas, vales, valor, valse, value, varus, vases, veals, velar, verso, volar, voles.

 Words containing the letters "a-e-l-o-r-s-s-s-u-v"
 

+3 letters: marvelousness.

 

+4 letters: chivalrousness.

 

+5 letters: marvelousnesses, overzealousness, voluntarinesses.

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

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Alternative Orthography: Savourless


Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)

53 61 76 6F 75 72 6C 65 73 73

Leonardo da Vinci (1452-1519; backwards) (references)

American Sign Language (origins from 1620-1817 in Italy and, especially, France) (references)

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Semaphore (1791, in France) (references)

Braille (1829, in France) (references)

Morse Code (1836) (references)

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Dancing Men (Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, 1903) (references)

Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)

01010011 01100001 01110110 01101111 01110101 01110010 01101100 01100101 01110011 01110011

HTML Code (1990) (references)

&#83 &#97 &#118 &#111 &#117 &#114 &#108 &#101 &#115 &#115

ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)

0053 0061 0076 006F 0075 0072 006C 0065 0073 0073

British Sign Language (Fingerspelling, BSL; 1992, British Deaf Association Dictionary of British Sign Language) (references)

Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)

53678881878478718585

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INDEX

1. Definition
2. Synonyms
3. Translations: Modern
4. Anagrams
5. Orthography
6. Bibliography


  

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