Meanings
comparative more flavorless · superlative most flavorless · alternative flavourless
- 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.
1876 September, “Miscellany”, in Popular Science Monthly, volume 91 more example
[…] and as for fruit, the high garden wall was lined with pear trees, spread out flat against it, where they managed to produce a cold, flavorless fruit, a good deal akin to cucumbers.
1882, Nathaniel Hawthorne, chapter XVIII, in Doctor Grimshawe's Secret: A romanceSynonyms: insipid
- 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.
Synonyms: insipid
- natural sciencesWithout 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.
2014, Mark A. Cunningham, Neoclassical Physics, page 241
Synonyms & antonyms
adjectiveLacking taste or flavor; without seasoning, spice, or discernible qualities of taste.
adjectiveFlat; lacking character or definition.
More synonyms by meaning
adjectivelacking taste or flavor or tang
Synonym sets from Open English WordNet, CC BY 4.0.
Origin
- Proto-Indo-European*bʰel-
- Proto-Indo-European*bʰleh₁-
- Proto-Italic*flāō
- Latinflō
- Latinflātor
- Vulgar Latin*flātor
- Old Frenchflaor
- Middle Englishsavourinflu.
- Middle Englishflavour
- Englishflavor
- Proto-Indo-European*lewh₁-
- Proto-Indo-European*lewHs-
- Proto-Germanic*leusaną
- Proto-Germanic*lausaz
- Englishflavorless
Translations
Ancient Greek ἄγευστος
- ἄγευστος (ágeustos)lacking taste or flavor
Czech bez chuti
- bez chutilacking taste or flavor
Danish smagløs
- smagløslacking taste or flavor
Finnish mauton, mitäänsanomaton
- mautonlacking taste or flavor
- mitäänsanomatonflat; lacking character or definition
German fad, fade
- fadlacking taste or flavor
- fadelacking taste or flavor
- geschmackloslacking taste or flavor
Greek ακαρύκευτος
- ακαρύκευτος (akarýkeftos)lacking taste or flavor
Latin insulsus
- insulsuslacking taste or flavor
Māori mākihakiha
- mākihakihalacking taste or flavor
Portuguese insípido, insosso
- insípidolacking taste or flavor
- insossolacking taste or flavor
Punjabi ਰਸਹੀਣ
- ਰਸਹੀਣ (rashīṇ)lacking taste or flavor
Russian безвкусный, без запаха
- безвкусный (bezvkusnyj)lacking taste or flavor
- без запаха (bez zapaxa)lacking taste or flavor
- пре́сный (présnyj)flat; lacking character or definition
- безжизненный (bezžiznennyj)flat; lacking character or definition
- вя́лый (vjályj)flat; lacking character or definition
Slovak bez chuti
- bez chutilacking taste or flavor
Spanish soso, desaborido
- sosolacking taste or flavor
- desaboridolacking taste or flavor
- chirlelacking taste or flavor
- insulsolacking taste or flavor
- insípidolacking taste or flavor
Swedish smaklös, jolmig
- smaklöslacking taste or flavor
- jolmiglacking taste or flavor
- faddlacking taste or flavor
Turkish tatsız, lezzetsiz
- tatsızlacking taste or flavor
- lezzetsizlacking taste or flavor
- sasılacking taste or flavor
Cite this entry
flavorless. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 4, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/flavorless
“flavorless.” WatkinsX Dictionary, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/flavorless. Accessed November 4, 2026.
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