affadir
French, verb/a.fa.diʁ/
affadir is a French verb meaning “to make tasteless, insipid or bland” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) defines it as “Dégoûter par une sensation de fadeur”.
What does affadir mean in English?
verb
- 1
to make tasteless, insipid or bland
Source: English Wiktionary, French section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How French dictionaries define it
verb: 1. Dégoûter par une sensation de fadeur. 2. Rendre fade. 3. Se dit figurément en parlant des ouvrages d’esprit. 4. Perdre son caractère, son originalité.
The definition in the French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire), in French.
Source: French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire), dump of September 1, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org.
Forms of affadir
- avoir + past participle infinitive multiword-construction
- affadissant gerund participle present
- ayant + past participle gerund multiword-construction participle
- affadi participle past
- affadis first-person indicative present
- affadit indicative present singular
- affadissons first-person indicative plural
- affadissez indicative plural present
- affadissent indicative plural present
- affadissais first-person imperfect indicative
- affadissait imperfect indicative singular
- affadissions first-person imperfect indicative
- affadissiez imperfect indicative plural
- affadissaient imperfect indicative plural
- affadîmes first-person historic indicative
- affadîtes historic indicative past
- affadirent historic indicative past
- affadirai first-person future indicative
Source: English Wiktionary and French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
How do you pronounce affadir?
- /a.fa.diʁ/
- \a.fa.diʁ\
Sources: English Wiktionary, French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026); recordings from Wikimedia Commons.
How common is affadir in French?
affadir appears about once in every 33 million words in written French.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).