odorless

English

Alternative forms

• odourless (Commonwealth English)

Etymology

From odor +‎ -less.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /əʊdələs/

Adjective

odorless (not comparable)

1. Having no odor.

   They were taken unawares and overcome when the room filled with a lethal, odorless gas.

   • 1936, The Reader's Digest, volume 29, page 99:

     The garlion is a cross between the garlic and onion; the topeppo combines the tomato and the pepper. We have the odorless onion, the odorless cabbage, the lemon cucumber that grows on a vine but looks like a lemon, and a giant cucumber

   • 1995, John December, quoting Craig Jackson, The World Wide Web Unleashed, 2nd edition, Indianapolis, Ind.: Sams.net, →ISBN, page 450:

     The Invisible Killer Dihydrogen monoxide is colorless, odorless, tasteless, and kills uncounted thousands of people every year. Most of these deaths are caused by accidental inhalation of DHMO, but the dangers of dihydrogen monoxide do not end there.

Translations

having no odor

• Catalan: inodor
• Chinese:

  Cantonese: 無嗅 / 无嗅 (mou⁴ cau³)

  Mandarin: 無臭 / 无臭 (zh) (wúxiù), 無嗅 / 无嗅 (wúxiù)

• Danish: duftløs
• Esperanto: senodora
• Finnish: hajuton (fi)
• French: inodore (fr)
• German: geruchlos (de)
• Greek: αμύριστος (el) (amýristos)

  Ancient: ἄνοσμος (ánosmos)

• Hungarian: szagtalan (hu)
• Italian: inodore (it) m or f
• Japanese: 無臭 (ja) (mushū)
• Kazakh: иіссіз (iıssız)
• Kyrgyz: жытсыз (jıtsız)
• Latin: inolens, inodōrus
• Manx: neuhoaral
• Norwegian:

  Bokmål: luktfri

  Nynorsk: luktfri

• Polish: bezwonny (pl), bezzapachowy (pl)
• Portuguese: inodoro (pt) m
• Punjabi: ਗੰਧਹੀਣ (gandhhīṇ)
• Russian: непа́хнущий (ru) (nepáxnuščij), без за́паха (bez zápaxa)
• Swedish: luktlös (sv), luktfri (sv)
• Tagalog: walang-amoy
• Turkish: kokusuz (tr)
• Welsh: diaroglau

Anagrams

• Delrosso, doorless, lordoses, old roses