flavored

1. 1
   with added tasteadjective

   Having a particular taste, often because flavoring has been added.

   The cafe sells several flavored coffees, but most regulars still order theirs black.

   Children take cherry-flavored cough syrup far more willingly than the plain kind.

   Oppositeplain, unflavored

   Note

   The adjective often works as the second half of a compound that names the taste: grape-flavored soda, cherry-flavored syrup, hyphenated before the noun. Such a label promises a taste, not an ingredient. A grape-flavored soda may owe everything to artificial flavoring, and real grape juice tastes much richer; when the fruit itself is in the drink, a careful writer says so.

2. 2
   gave tasteverb

   Simple past and past participle of flavor.

   The baker flavored the icing with almond extract.

   The tea was lightly flavored with bergamot oil.

   Note

   A regular verb form, made by adding -ed to flavor, that serves as both past tense and past participle. Because the verb is transitive, the past tense takes an object: the baker flavored the icing. After be, the participle can blur into the adjective. With a with-phrase or an agent it reads as passive, and standing alone it reads as plain description.

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