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flavourless, a.|ˈfleɪvəlɪs|
[f. flavour n. + -less.]
Without flavour.
1730–6in Bailey (folio). 1775in Ash. 1871M. Collins Mrq. & Merch. I. viii. 264 [He] sat disconsolately down to the..flavourless soup. 1883Century Mag. XXVI. 813 Being flavorless in comparison with those grown in Europe.
b. fig. (cf. flavour n. 3).
1861Holland Less. Life iii. 45 A life..by the side of which the life of childhood is as flavorless..as that of a fly. 1883Froude Short Stud. Ser. iv. 184 To the many they seem flavourless and colourless.
Hence ˈflavourlessness, the state or condition of being without flavour; in quot fig.
1865Pall Mall G. 23 Sept. 3/1 Something of flavourlessness..must mark a man who can represent a composite public opinion. |