zinglessとは 意味・読み方・使い方

語源

zing +‎ -less

形容詞

zingless (comparative more zingless, superlative most zingless)

1. Lacking zest or vitality.

   Synonyms: dull, flat, insipid, tedious

   • 1944, James Thurber, letter to E. B. White in The Thurber Letters, New York: Simon & Schuster, 2002, p. 366,^[1]

     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.

   • 1968, Temple Fielding, Fielding’s Travel Guide to Europe, New York: Fielding Publications, p. 1266,^[2]

     Bland, zingless furnishings and décor in [the hotel’s] public rooms and 25 bedchambers.

   • 2006, Alan Soble (ed.), Sex from Plato to Paglia: A Philosophical Encyclopedia, Westport, CT: Greenwood Press, Volume 1, p. 22,^[3]

     […] that these acts are not sexual is not farfetched, exactly because they are zingless and torpid […] .