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sauceless

sauceless

1 3.8
Not covered or served with sauce
  • adjective
  • /ˈsɔːsləs/
translation icon : 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
5.8

Not covered with sauce when served

includes items without sauce inside as well as on the surface

Antonyms

sauced
  • Slang
9.8

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

How Sauced

drenched in
7 4.6
sauced
  • Slang
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.