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SAVOURLESS
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Dictionary entry overview: What does savourless mean?
• SAVOURLESS (adjective)
The adjective SAVOURLESS has 1 sense:
1. lacking taste or flavor or tang
Familiarity information: SAVOURLESS used as an adjective is very rare.
Dictionary entry details
Sense 1
Meaning:
Lacking taste or flavor or tang
Synonyms:
bland; flat; flavorless; flavourless; insipid; savorless; savourless; vapid
Context example:
vapid tea
Similar:
tasteless (lacking flavor)
Derivation:
savourlessness (the property of having no flavor)
Context examples
True, generous feeling is made small account of by some, but here were two natures rendered, the one intolerably acrid, the other despicably savourless for the want of it.
(Jane Eyre, by Charlotte Brontë)
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