weaksauce
Meanings
Plural: weaksauces
Adj
- Lacking in interest or substance; boring, disappointing, lacklustre.
Noun
- Someone or something that is lacking in interest or substance.
- The quality or state of lacking in interest or substance; boringness, disappointment.
- Synonym of weak tea (“weak or feeble arguments, efforts, or proposals”).
Origin / Etymology
PIE word
*séh₂ls
From weak (adjective) + sauce (noun), referring to a sauce that lacks flavour. By surface analysis, weak + -sauce (suffix used to add emphasis to adjectives).
Synonyms
banal, beat, blah, bland, boring, cold, colourless, drab, dreich, drowsy, dull, dull as dishwater, flat, ho-hum, humdrum, insipid, lackluster, lacklustre, lame, languid, lifeless, longsome, monotonous, mundane, no fun at parties, pedantic, pedestrian, plain, plodding, prosaic, prosy, snoozeworthy, soporific, static, stodgy, straightforward, tedious, uncool, uninteresting, vanilla, vapid, wan, weak tea, weaksauce, wooden
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