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[ teyst-lis ] / ˈteɪst lɪs / SEE SYNONYMS FOR tasteless ON THESAURUS.COM
adjectivehaving 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. Origin of tastelessFirst recorded in 1585–95; taste + -less OTHER WORDS FROM tastelesstaste·less·ly, adverbtaste·less·ness, nounWords nearby tastelesstaste bud, taste buds, taste cell, tasteful, taste hair, tasteless, tastemaker, taster, -tastic, tasting, tasting menu Dictionary.com UnabridgedBased on the Random House Unabridged Dictionary, © Random House, Inc. 2020 Example sentences from the Web for tastelessThe tasteless bread was transformed into a sweet cake that included ingredients, such as dried fruit and marzipan. One Cake to Rule Them All: How Stollen Stole Our Hearts|Molly Hannon|December 24, 2014|DAILY BEAST They treated his rantings as a tasteless form of benign political posturing. Sheldon Adelson’s ‘Bomb Empty Iranian Desert’ Comment|Rabbi Shmuley Boteach|October 25, 2013|DAILY BEAST After making a tasteless knock-knock joke in court, West celebrated by eating ice cream with his daughters. George Zimmerman’s Lawyer Don West Took a Truly Shocking Selfie|Brian Ries|June 29, 2013|DAILY BEAST The Sacramento Bee went on to publish a tasteless cartoon making the same point. Don’t Be a Tragedy Troll|Joshua DuBois|May 22, 2013|DAILY BEAST
Boneless, skinless chicken breasts that are actually delicious and moist, rather than kind of dry and tasteless. The 2012 Holiday Kitchen Gift Guide|Megan McArdle|December 13, 2012|DAILY BEAST The name paraffin generally applies to a colorless and tasteless waxlike substance that is solid at ordinary temperature. The Propaganda for Reform in Proprietary Medicines, Vol. 2 of 2|Various That poem is an ocean of wit, but every one knows that its opening lines are tasteless. The Poison Tree|Bankim Chandra Chatterjee Loud rumbling in bowels; irrepressible eructations, tasteless. New, Old, and Forgotten Remedies: Papers by Many Writers|Various It is very rough, and tasteless, except a strong flavour of the smoke. The Substance of a Journal During a Residence at the Red River Colony, British North America|John West When they had learned the habit of coming in crowds, he one day set out rice poisoned with a tasteless drug. Beast and Man in India|John Lockwood Kipling
British Dictionary definitions for tasteless
adjectivelacking in flavour; insipid lacking social or aesthetic taste rare unable to taste Derived forms of tastelesstastelessly, adverbtastelessness, nounCollins English Dictionary - Complete & Unabridged 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012 Words related to tastelessdistasteful, uninspired, dull, boring, garish, stupid, tawdry, rude, off-color, pretentious, outlandish, crude, tacky, foolish, crass, blah, bland, flat, flavorless, insipid |