Definition of Savourless

1. Adjective. Lacking taste or flavor or tang. "Vapid tea"


Definition of Savourless

1. Adjective. (alternative form of savorless) ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Lexicographical Neighbors of Savourless

savorous
savorously
savors
savour
savoured
savourer
savourers
savourier
savouries
savouriest
savourily
savouriness
savouring
savourless (current term)
savourlessness
savourly
savourous
savourously
savours
savoury
savoy
savoy cabbage
savoyards
savoys
savs
savvey
savveyed
savveying

Literary usage of Savourless

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. A Select Library of the Nicene and Post-Nicene Fathers of the Christian Church by Augustine, John Chrysostom, Philip Schaff (1888)
"Hence the savourless salt is " good for nothing, but to be cast out, and trodden under foot of men." It is not therefore he who suffers persecution, ..."

2. A Select Library of the Nicene and Post-Nicene Fathers of the Christian Church by Augustine, John Chrysostom (1888)
"Hence the savourless salt is " good for nothing, but to be cast out, and trodden under foot of men." It is not therefore he who suffers persecution, ..."

3. The Bible Herald (1880)
"Thus then any one of you who forsakes not all that is his own cannot be my disciple. Salt, then, is good but if the salt also has become savourless ..."

4. The Dublin University Magazine: A Literary and Political Journal (1865)
"But how could she practise euch flagrant, foul hypocrisy as to pretend to ask for t lioso heavenly gifts which seemed to her so savourless and insipid, ..."

5. The Poems of Alexander Hume (?1557-1609) by Alexander Hume (1902)
"Tread ye down savourless salt " seems preferable to "Tread ye us as savourless salt." The saying is a conversion of S. Mat. v. 13 into a direct counsel. ..."

6. The Poems of Alexander Hume (?1557-1609) by Alexander Hume, Alexander Lawson (1902)
"Tread ye down savourless salt " seems preferable to "Tread ye us as savourless salt." The saying is a conversion of S. Mat. v. 13 into a direct counsel. ..."

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