Synonyms for zestless
- musty
- smelly
- sour
- stagnant
- watery
- dried
- dry
- faded
- parched
- rank
- reeking
- spoiled
- stinking
- fetid
- flat
- fusty
- hard
- insipid
- malodorous
- noisome
- stenchy
- tasteless
- weak
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Success in suppressing the precivilized qualities of the boy results in a "zestless automaton" that is something less than a man.
WORD ORIGIN
1670s, from French zeste "piece of orange or lemon peel used as a flavoring," of unknown origin. Sense of "thing that adds flavor" is 1709; that of "keen enjoyment" first attested 1791.
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