flavorless

fla·vor  (flvr)

n.

1. Distinctive taste; savor: a flavor of smoke in bacon. See Synonyms at taste.

2. A distinctive yet intangible quality felt to be characteristic of a given thing: "What matters in literature . . . is surely the idiosyncratic, the individual, the flavor or color of a particular human suffering" (Harold Bloom).

3. A flavoring: contains no artificial flavors.

4. Physics Any of six classifications of quark varieties (up, down, strange, charm, top, and bottom), distinguished by mass and electric charge.

5. Archaic Aroma; fragrance.

tr.v. fla·vored, fla·vor·ing, fla·vors

To give flavor to.

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[Middle English flavour, aroma, from Old French flaor, from Vulgar Latin *fltor, from Latin flre, to blow; see bhl- in Indo-European roots.]

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flavor·er n.

flavor·less adj.

flavor·ous (-s), flavor·some (-sm) adj.

flavor·y adj.

Thesaurus

Adj.

1.

flavorless - lacking taste or flavor or tang; "a bland diet"; "insipid hospital food"; "flavorless supermarket tomatoes"; "vapid beer"; "vapid tea" flavourless, insipid, savorless, savourless, vapid, bland, flat tasteless - lacking flavor