Definitions
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License
- adj. Lacking taste or flavor; without seasoning, spice, or discernible qualities of taste.
- adj. Flat; lacking character or definition.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English
- adj. Without flavor; tasteless. Opposite of
flavorful .
from The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
- Without flavor; wanting positive or distinct odor or taste; tasteless, literally or figuratively.
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- adj. lacking taste or flavor or tang
Etymologies
Examples
-
Ms. Lloyd recommended Nabisco wafers, but added: I don ' t like to use the word flavorless … .
-
Most supermarket tomatoes are picked and shipped while still green and artificially stimulated to redden by treatment with ethylene gas p. 351, so they have little ripe-fruit flavor, and in fact have become a byword for flavorless produce.
-
Every one (rustic pork, guinea hen, rabbit, and suckling pig) was rubbery, dry, and nearly flavorless, which is everything Bloomfield's food ordinarily is not.
-
Foodie heresy I know, but I find avocados kind of flavorless and mushy.
-
Natural Light was "flavorless"; Michelob Ultra was simply "bland"; Coors Light was "blah" though it did have the slightest hint of sweetness, as if an ounce of (bad) ginger ale had been diluted with pint of club soda.
-
To me sauteed zucchini was always kind of flavorless, but this tasted fantastic.
-
I mean, I love bran muffins as much as the next guy, but is Canada really going to just roll over and accept this practical, unspiced (I'm not saying "flavorless," because I admit bran muffins are tasty), unaromatic, home-bound and yes, boring, assignment of what it means to be Canadian?
-
Long derided as a lowbrow guilty pleasure at best, and unsanitary and flavorless at worst, street food has undergone a renaissance, as mobile barbecue shacks, crêperies and even pizzerias have become popular.
-
I was steeling myself to speak to it, to extract whatever dull memory and flavorless intelligence it had stored within itself.
-
But where it all leads is not perhaps to fascism, as one critic worried, or even a kind of cultural fascism, but instead to a culture that is so multi-flavored as to be flavorless, so superficially diverse as to be homogenized and homogeneous.
Comments
Log in or sign up to get involved in the conversation. It's quick and easy.