Definitions
American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition
- adj. Lacking flavor; insipid.
- adj. Not having or showing good taste.
Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
- Having no taste. Exciting no sensation in the organs of taste; insipid: as, a tasteless medicine.
- Incapable of the sense of taste: as, the tongue when furred is nearly tasteless.
- Having no power of giving pleasure; stale; insipid; uninteresting; dull.
- Not in accordance with the principles of good taste.
- Destitute of the power to appreciate or enjoy what is excellent, beautiful, or harmonious; having bad or false taste: as, a tasteless age.
Wiktionary
- adj. Having no flavour; bland, insipid
- adj. Lacking delicacy, refinement and good taste; unbecoming, crass.
GNU Webster's 1913
- adj. Having no taste; insipid; flat.
- adj. Destitute of the sense of taste; or of good taste.
- adj. Not in accordance with good taste.
WordNet 3.0
- adj. lacking flavor
- adj. lacking aesthetic or social taste
Etymologies
- taste + -less (Wiktionary)
Examples
“It's not like people have never seen others dressed up in tasteless costumes behaving like idiots.”
The Huffington Post: Rosalyn Hoffman: A Generation in Need of Crystal Balls?
“The commercialization, selfish grab-assing, and frequent corruption and fraud that goes with it is just plain tasteless to me.”
““Sometimes people respond in tasteless ways, sometimes in artistic ways.””
“That being said, I wouldn't call it "tasteless" - I felt like her being on the show was actually showing support for her husband.”
“A: Sedum sexangular (S. sexanulare), also commonly called tasteless stonecrop, is extremely tolerant of cold conditions.”
“What is new is the fear Showtime seems to have about being called tasteless, or worse.”
“ARDEN: No. Actually, arsenic is colorless, and odorless, and tasteless, which is one good thing, if you ` re trying to poison someone.”
“It's a very damaging mistake," the piece avers: "the idea that sniffing out the tasteless is the same thing as taste.”
“So now the city the way New Year Most people choose to become two: one is to set a table in the hotel Fanzhuang, 30 wild night at a meal, then come home to see that dozens of Taiwanese chewing years, "tasteless" - Spring Festival; the other is the family to travel in the New Year outside. fact, to say follow the fashion, travel, or set a table for two I do, but why do I forget all the people is being gradually forgotten the sense of a deep sense of "festive" and deep deep invasion in the New Year's share of deep affection.”
“As a general rule Midtown Lunch tends to be anti-frozen yogurt (especially the "healthy" aka tasteless kind) but here's one for all you closeted Tasti D fans.”
Lists
These user-created lists contain the word ‘tasteless’.
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Describing the Taste of Foods
yummy, zesty, piquant, pungent, sharp, spicy, poignant, delicious, ambrosial, appetizing, delectable, heavenly and 194 more...
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-more or -less
Words ending with *more or *less, more or less. Many of theses terms also appear on the list The -less Said, which see.
schemaless, unless, useless, guileless, wireless, regardless, homeless, endless, nevertheless, countless, jobless, doubtless and 434 more...
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Twitter faves
The new favourite words of people on Twitter.
A script searches Twitter for "X is my new favourite word" and adds it to this list.
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gonk, nerking, guap, gimp, fabulous, dabble, fabilicious, tragic, zooted, hey, cheekini, nugget and 457 more... -
Tasteless
Adjectives meaning tasteless
savorless, vapid, insipid, sapidless, ingustable, fatuous, tasteless, bland
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Vet4peace's list
Dental Dam
unwieldy, tasteless, odorless, obstruction, rottweiler, prime rib, rump roast
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The -less Said...
hopeless, bootless, groundless, luckless, artless, feckless, hapless, joyless, useless, penniless, childless, peerless and 310 more...
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SAT
abandon,extreme e..., abash,to humiliate, abate,to lessen, abbreviate,to sho..., abridge, abdicate,to forma..., aberration,depart..., abnormality, abet,to encourage, abhor,to hate, abide,to follow o..., abject,utterly ho... and 2228 more...
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SAT
abandon,extreme e..., dispensing of all..., abash,to humiliate, abate,to lessen, abbreviate,to sho..., abridge, abdicate,to forma..., aberration,depart..., abnormality, abet,to encourage, abhor,to hate, abide,to follow o... and 2229 more...
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SAT
abandon,extreme e..., dispensing of all..., abash,to humiliate, abate,to lessen, abbreviate,to sho..., abridge, abdicate,to forma..., aberration,depart..., abnormality, abet,to encourage, abhor,to hate, abide,to follow o... and 2229 more...
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The Triumph of Bullshit
being words from the poem of the same name by T.S. Eliot
etiolated, alembicated, orotund, tasteless, fantastical, monotonous, crotchety, constipated, impotent, galamatias, affected, imitated and 26 more...
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Flavorless or Bland
Words related to flavorless or bland
insipid, vapid, sapidless, unsavory, savorless, tasteless, pedestrian
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