Definition of tasteless Tasteless

/tejˈstlʌs/ - [teystlus] - taste•less

We found 8 definitions of tasteless from 4 different sources.

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Adjective

tasteless - lacking aesthetic or social taste
  tasteful having or showing or conforming to good taste
  inelegant lacking in refinement or grace or good taste
  pretentious making claim to or creating an appearance of (often undeserved) importance or distinction; "a pretentious country house"; "a pretentious fraud"; "a pretentious scholarly edition"
  perceptiveness, appreciation, discernment, taste the quality of insight and sympathetic understanding
  barbaric unrestrained and crudely rich; "barbaric use of color or ornament"
  gimcrack, flash, garish, tawdry, tatty, tacky, trashy, gaudy, flashy, loud, meretricious, brassy, cheap (of a glutinous liquid such as paint) not completely dried and slightly sticky to the touch; "tacky varnish"
  brummagem cheap and showy; "a cheap Brummagem imitation"
  camp, campy providing sophisticated amusement by virtue of having artificially (and vulgarly) mannered or banal or sentimental qualities; "they played up the silliness of their roles for camp effect"; "campy Hollywood musicals of the 1940's"
  off-colour, off-color, indelicate verging on the indecent; "an indelicate proposition"
tasteless - lacking flavor
  tasty pleasing to the sense of taste; "a tasty morsel"
  unappetising, unappetizing not appetizing in appearance, aroma, or taste
  unpalatable not pleasant or acceptable to the taste or mind; "an unpalatable meal"; "unpalatable truths"; "unpalatable behavior"
  taste property a property appreciated via the sense of taste
  flavorless, flavourless, savorless, savourless, insipid, vapid, bland, flat lacking interest or significance or impact; "an insipid personality"; "jejune novel"
  nonflavored, nonflavoured, unflavored, unflavoured without flavoring added
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Webster DictionaryWebster's Unabridged Dictionary 📘

  • tasteless (a.)
    Having no taste; insipid; flat; as, tasteless fruit.
  • tasteless (a.)
    Destitute of the sense of taste; or of good taste; as, a tasteless age.
  • tasteless (a.)
    Not in accordance with good taste; as, a tasteless arrangement of drapery.

OmegaWiki DictionaryOmegaWiki Dictionary Ω

  • tasteless
    Having no flavour.

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