tasteless

[ teyst-lis ]

/ ˈteɪst lɪs /

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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.

Nearby words

taste bud, taste buds, taste cell, taste hair, tasteful, tasteless, tastemaker, taster, tasting menu, tasty, tat

Origin of tasteless

First recorded in 1585–95; taste + -less

Related forms

taste·less·ly, adverbtaste·less·ness, noun

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Examples from the Web for tasteless

The tasteless bread was transformed into a sweet cake that included ingredients, such as dried fruit and marzipan.
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They treated his rantings as a tasteless form of benign political posturing.
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After making a tasteless knock-knock joke in court, West celebrated by eating ice cream with his daughters.
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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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Loud rumbling in bowels; irrepressible eructations, 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

/ (ˈteɪstlɪs) /

adjective

lacking in flavour; insipid

lacking social or aesthetic taste

rare unable to taste

Derived Forms

tastelessly, adverbtastelessness, noun

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