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🥣 Without salt 😐 Dull or boring
saltless

saltless

3.4
A food made without any salt
  • adjective
  • /ˈsɔltləs/
translation icon : sin sal
  • The saltless soup tasted bland, so I added some herbs for flavor.
  • saltless bread

Examples

  • The passenger may have died on that pitching galley floor, or, good Christ, he may have begged to taste the saltless water of their particular sea.

    Fiction book (1996)

  • For a healthier option, she decided to use saltless butter in her cooking.

  • He prefers saltless crackers with his cheese, as he is on a low-sodium diet.

Synonyms

unsalted
vssaltless
9 1.0

Food that does not have salt added

is the general name for food that contains no salt

Antonyms

salty
61 1.0

Tasting of salt, like sea water or chips

How Salty

briny
6 6.4
salty
61 1.0
saltish
6.5
saltless
3.4

Surface Forms

saltless positive

Morphology

saltless = salt (transparent) = salt + less

Formation salt + -less yields the straightforward meaning 'without salt', which a B1 learner can derive from 'salt' + '-less'.

Etymology

Saltless is made of salt, the common seasoning, and the ending -less, meaning 'without', just like in hopeless, so saltless simply means 'without salt'.