flavorless

形容词 adj.
中文释义
英 /ˈfleɪvələs/    美 /ˈfleɪvɚləs/

英文释义

形容词 adj.
  1. Lacking taste or flavor; without seasoning, spice, or discernible qualities of taste.
    — Salt oysters, on being transferred to fresh water, are "fattened" in the course of two or three days ; if allowed to remain longer they become lean again, and are flavorless.
  2. Flat; lacking character or definition.
    — 1902, Bret Harte, Openings in the Old Trail, IV: A Buckeye Hollow Inheritance, […] and the gravestone of its dead owner on the hill was no more flavorless of his personality than was this plain house in which he had lived and died.
  3. Without flavor.
    — On the other hand, Pauli had just proposed a massless, chargeless, colorless, flavorless particle whose sole reason for existence was to preserve the principle of momentum conservation.

词形变化

more flavorless comparative most flavorless superlative flavourless alternative

词汇关系

衍生词
flavorizer flavorlessly flavorlessness

词源

Etymology tree
Proto-Indo-European *bʰel-
Proto-Indo-European *-eh₁-
Proto-Indo-European *bʰleh₁-der.
Proto-Italic *flāōder.
Latin flō
Proto-Indo-European *-tōr
Proto-Italic *-tōr
Latin -tor
Latin flātor
Vulgar Latin *flātorder.
Old French flaorbor.
Middle English savourinflu.
Middle English flavour
English flavor
Proto-Indo-European *lewh₁-
Proto-Indo-European *lewHs-der.
Proto-Germanic *leusaną
Proto-Germanic *lausaz
Proto-Germanic *-lausaz
Proto-West Germanic *-laus
Old English -lēas
Middle English -les
English -less
English flavorless
From flavor + -less.
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