tasteless

[ teyst-lis ]
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adjective
  1. having no taste or flavor; insipid.

  2. dull; uninteresting.

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

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

  3. lacking the physical sense of taste.

Origin of tasteless

1
First recorded in 1585–95; taste + -less

Other words from tasteless

  • taste·less·ly, adverb
  • taste·less·ness, noun

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How to use tasteless in a sentence

  • His mouth was tastelessly dry, as though he had been eating dust, then salt and bitter as after a drink of sea-water.

    Lord Jim | Joseph Conrad

British Dictionary definitions for tasteless

tasteless

/ (ˈteɪstlɪs) /


adjective
  1. lacking in flavour; insipid

  2. lacking social or aesthetic taste

  1. rare unable to taste

Derived forms of tasteless

  • tastelessly, adverb
  • tastelessness, noun

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