unleavened

Adjective

Meaning

Not leavened; containing no leaven; as, unleavened bread.

Source: Webster's dictionary

Synonyms

unraised passover lenten absolute fresh sweet blank bare colorless bleak awful bloodless bake bland tasteless
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Antonyms

leavened good great strong heavy amazing
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Phrases with the word

feast of unleavened bread festival of unleavened bread

Examples

Every dimwit editor who sees himself as the source of all dreary blanc-mange plain porridge unleavened literature, licks his guillotine and eyes the neck of any author who dares to speak above a whisper or write above a nursery rhyme. Ray Bradbury

Newt Gingrich has a restless and outsized intelligence that is tragically unleavened by any kind of critical sensibility. John Podhoretz

unleavened bread is often simply flour mixed with water Source: Internet

Additionally, there is a tradition of not eating matzoh (flat unleavened bread) in the 30 days before Passover begins so that there will be an increased appetite for it during Passover itself. Source: Internet

And on the fifteenth day of the same month is the feast of unleavened bread unto the LORD; seven days ye shall eat unleavened bread. Source: Internet

In commemoration, for the duration of Passover no leavened bread is eaten, for which reason Passover was called the feast of unleavened bread in the Torah or Old Testament. Source: Internet

Close letter words and terms

unleavable unleave unleavenable unleavened bread unleavenedness unlecherous