Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- Destitute of flavor; insipid.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- adjective Having no savor; destitute of smell or of taste; insipid.
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- adjective Not having
taste ;flavorless .
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- adjective lacking taste or flavor or tang
Etymologies
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Examples
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Men are not living in the Kingdom as they should – The savorless salt/sullen lamp.
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He talks about one study in which groups of Thai and Swedish women were given Thai food, Swedish food, and some other food "that was high in nutrients but consisted of a sticky, savorless paste."
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Most telling was a third variation of the experiment, in which both the Swedes and the Thais were given food that was high in nutrients but consisted of a sticky, savorless paste.
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Most telling was a third variation of the experiment, in which both the Swedes and the Thais were given food that was high in nutrients but consisted of a sticky, savorless paste.
Archive 2007-01-01 Peggy 2007
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He talks about one study in which groups of Thai and Swedish women were given Thai food, Swedish food, and some other food "that was high in nutrients but consisted of a sticky, savorless paste."
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A savorless people, gulping tasteless food, and sitting afterward, coatless and thoughtless, in rocking-chairs prickly with inane decorations, listening to mechanical music, saying mechanical things about the excellence of Ford automobiles, and viewing themselves as the greatest race in the world.
Main Street 2004
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It was a wonderful toy and a glorious war, and while we rejoiced in victory when it came, life seemed savorless for a long time afterward.
WASN'T THE GRASS GREENER A Curmudgeon's Fond Memories Holland, Barbara 1999
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Whitmark had children back East and a wife whom he had married for all the traditions of niceness and denial and abnegation which men demand of the women they expect to marry, and find savorless so often when they are married to it.
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But Irina, filled from top to toe with the _tempérament_ that comprehends every vagary and something of genius, watched the illumination of his face and eyes till she was beset with high desire: till her present life, with its hollow luxury, its spiceless ease, its savorless pretence, had become abominable to her.
The Genius Margaret Horton Potter
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When mutton is two years old, the meat is flabby, pale and savorless.
The Whitehouse Cookbook (1887) The Whole Comprising a Comprehensive Cyclopedia of Information for the Home Mrs. F.L. Gillette
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