savourless
World English Dictionary
savour or savor (ˈseɪvə) ![[Click for IPA pronunciation guide]](http://static.sfdict.com/dictstatic/g/d/dictionary_questionbutton_default.gif) | |
| —n | |
| 1. | the quality in a substance that is perceived by the sense of taste or smell |
| 2. | a specific taste or smell: the savour of lime |
| 3. | a slight but distinctive quality or trace |
| 4. | the power to excite interest: the savour of wit has been lost |
| 5. | archaic reputation |
| —vb (often foll by of) (often foll by of) | |
| 6. | to possess the taste or smell (of) |
| 7. | to have a suggestion (of) |
| 8. | (tr) to give a taste to; season |
| 9. | (tr) to taste or smell, esp appreciatively |
| 10. | (tr) to relish or enjoy |
| [C13: from Old French savour, from Latin sapor taste, from sapere to taste] | |
| savor or savor | |
| —n | |
| —vb | |
| [C13: from Old French savour, from Latin sapor taste, from sapere to taste] | |
| 'savourless or savor | |
| —adj | |
| 'savorless or savor | |
| —adj | |
| 'savorous or savor | |
| —adj | |
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WordNet
| savourless | |
adjective | |
| lacking taste or flavor or tang; "a bland diet"; "insipid hospital food"; "flavorless supermarket tomatoes"; "vapid beer"; "vapid tea" [syn: bland] |
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Savourless
is always a great word to know.
So is interrobang. Does it mean:
| a stew of meat, vegetables, potatoes, etc. |
| a printed punctuation mark (‽), available only in some typefaces, designed to combine the question mark (?) and the exclamation point (!), indicating a mixture of query and interjection, as after a rhetorical question. |
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