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odorless

odorless

11 3.0
Not having any smell
  • adjective
  • /ˈoʊdərləs/
  • US
translation icon : inodoro
  • Carbon monoxide from your car's exhaust is odorless, colorless, and lethal.
  • odorless and colorless
  • odorless and tasteless
  • odorless powder

It's a odorless white fast curing urethane resin usually sold under the name Instacast or Fastcast or something like that.

Examples

  • - The drug is tasteless and odorless.

  • It's odorless, undetectable by the dogs.

  • Just one full cap in your dog's water, and wow, it's odorless, tasteless.

  • In powder form, it's colorless, odorless and incredibly dangerous.

  • The oil is odorless.

  • It's odorless and tasteless.

  • Radon is a colorless, odorless, tasteless gas that comes from the natural radioactive breakdown.

    Academic text (2008)
  • It is odorless, tasteless, dissolves instantly in liquid, and is among the more deadly poisons known to man.

  • The new cleaning solution is completely odorless and safe for use around pets.

  • This air freshener is designed to neutralize odors without leaving any odorless residue.

Synonyms

scentless
vsodorless
1 4.1

Having no smell that people can notice

focuses on not producing smell rather than retaining it
inodorous
vsodorless
8.6

Not having any smell

means not producing smell rather than keeping it

Antonyms

1 5.5

Having a smell you can notice

How Strong

fetid
8 7.9
odoriferous
  • Formal
8.5
odorous
1 5.5
scented
13 2.3
odorless
  • US
11 3.0

Surface Forms

odorless positive

Morphology

odorless = odor (transparent) = odor + less

The adjective is formed regularly from the noun 'odor' with the productive suffix '-less' meaning 'without', so the meaning is directly inferable.

Etymology

Odorless comes from the word odor 'smell' plus the ending -less 'without'. So it literally means 'without smell', which is why something described as odorless has no scent.