tasteless

[teyst-lis]

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adjective

having no taste or flavor; insipid.

dull; uninteresting.

lacking in aesthetic quality or capacity; devoid of good taste: a houseful of tasteless furnishings; a tasteless director of stale, dreary films.

lacking in politeness, seemliness, tact, etc.; unmannerly; insensitive: a tasteless remark.

lacking the physical sense of taste.

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Origin of tasteless

First recorded in 1585–95; taste + -less

Related formstaste·less·ly, adverbtaste·less·ness, noun

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The tasteless bread was transformed into a sweet cake that included ingredients, such as dried fruit and marzipan.
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Boneless, skinless chicken breasts that are actually delicious and moist, rather than kind of dry and tasteless.
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The name paraffin generally applies to a colorless and tasteless waxlike substance that is solid at ordinary temperature.
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That poem is an ocean of wit, but every one knows that its opening lines are tasteless.
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When they had learned the habit of coming in crowds, he one day set out rice poisoned with a tasteless drug.
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British Dictionary definitions for tasteless

tasteless

adjective

lacking in flavour; insipid

lacking social or aesthetic taste

rare unable to taste

Derived Formstastelessly, adverbtastelessness, noun

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Word Origin and History for tasteless

tasteless

adj.

1590s, "unable to taste;" c.1600, "uninteresting;" 1610s, "insipid;" 1670s, "tactless;" from taste (n.) + -less. Related: Tastelessly; tastelessness.

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