What does zingless mean?
Zingless means Lacking zest or vitality..
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Pronunciation varies by accent · adjective
Lacking zest or vitality..
1944, James Thurber, letter to E. B. White in The Thurber Letters, New York: Simon & Schuster, 2002, p. 366, You are […] a man of powerful testicles and firmly rooted hair, capable of orgasms of a pretty high order and equipped with a curious kind of zingless lasting power. You may be dizzy and weak and you may buzz but you will outlast the Lou Gehrigs who run past you up the stairs three at a time.
Bland, zingless furnishings and décor in [the hotel’s] public rooms and 25 bedchambers.
[…] that these acts are not sexual is not farfetched, exactly because they are zingless and torpid […].
Use zingless when its meaning, tone and grammar fit the full sentence. A synonym is not always a direct replacement.
Zingless means Lacking zest or vitality..
Common synonyms include dull, flat, insipid, tedious.
The opposite depends on the specific sense.
1944, James Thurber, letter to E. B. White in The Thurber Letters, New York: Simon & Schuster, 2002, p. 366, You are […] a man of powerful testicles and firmly rooted hair, capable of orgasms of a pretty high order and equipped with a curious kind of zingless lasting power. You may be dizzy and weak and you may buzz but you will outlast the Lou Gehrigs who run past you up the stairs three at a time.
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