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sauceless

sauceless

1 3.8
Not covered or served with sauce
  • adjective
  • /ˈsɔːsləs/
: sin salsa
  • The restaurant served a sauceless dish of vegetables that highlighted their natural flavors.

Examples

  • I prefer my pasta sauceless to really taste the garlic and herbs.

  • The noodles, mushy white corkscrews, are probably remnants from some other dinner; there's a plastic bucket of them sauceless, in case Anna wants more.

    Fiction book (1992)

  • Oh man, that's sauceless pizza situation now.

  • Oh man, that's sauceless pizza situation now.

  • You can get your preference of wing sauce on the sandwich if you don't address it. Don't be surprised if you are left sauceless.

    Blog text (18)

  • He ordered a sauceless salad to keep the meal light and healthy.

Synonyms

unsauced
vssauceless
1 5.8

Not covered with sauce when served

includes items without sauce inside as well as on the surface

Antonyms

sauced
  • Slang
3 9.8

Very drunk or for food covered in a thick liquid to add flavor

How Sauced

drenched in
16 4.6
sauced
  • Slang
3 9.8
sauceless
1 3.8

Surface Forms

sauceless positive

Morphology

sauceless = sauce (transparent) = sauce + less

Clearly formed from 'sauce' + the productive adjective-forming suffix '-less', meaning 'without sauce', which is directly derivable by learners.

Etymology

Sauceless is made from sauce and -less, so it literally means 'without sauce'. The word sauce originally meant a salty or spicy liquid used with food, which is why sauceless describes food served plain with no sauce.