Word Pronunciation & Dictionary

zingless

Word Rarity Very rare

Frequency: Zipf frequency 0.00 in modern English

Syllables: zin-g-less
IPA

18

Scrabble Score

8

Letters

3

Syllables

7

Unique Chars

Meaning

adj

Lacking zest or vitality.

Example Sentences

"1944, James Thurber, letter to E. B. White in The Thurber Letters, New York: Simon & Schuster, 2002, p. 366, You are […] a man of powerful testicles and firmly rooted hair, capable of orgasms of a pretty high order and equipped with a curious kind of zingless lasting power. You may be dizzy and weak and you may buzz but you will outlast the Lou Gehrigs who run past you up the stairs three at a time."
"Bland, zingless furnishings and décor in [the hotel’s] public rooms and 25 bedchambers."
"[…] that these acts are not sexual is not farfetched, exactly because they are zingless and torpid […]."

Etymology

From zing + -less.

Word Breakdown

Suffix: zing

Inflected Forms

more zingless (comparative) most zingless (superlative)

Synonyms

dull flat insipid tedious

Questions

What does zingless mean?: Lacking zest or vitality.
Where does zingless come from?: From zing + -less.

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