odourless - Wiktionary, the free dictionary (original) (raw)

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• odorless (US)

Proto-Indo-European *lewHs-der.

Proto-West Germanic *-laus

Middle English -les

English odourless

From odour + -less.

• (UK) IPA(key): /ˈəʊdələs/

odourless (not comparable)

1. Having no odour.
   They were taken unawares and overcome when the room filled with a lethal, odourless gas.
   • 1958, Anthony Burgess, The Enemy in the Blanket (The Malayan Trilogy), published 1972, page 357:
     Smiling, young, muscular, paunchless, probably odourless, he went.

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