Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- adjective Lacking flavor; insipid.
- adjective Not having or showing good taste.
from The Century Dictionary.
- Having no taste.
- 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.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- adjective Having no taste; insipid; flat.
- adjective Destitute of the sense of taste; or of good taste.
- adjective Not in accordance with good taste.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- adjective Having no
flavour ;bland ,insipid - adjective Lacking
delicacy ,refinement and good taste;unbecoming ,crass .
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- adjective lacking flavor
- adjective lacking aesthetic or social taste
Etymologies
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Examples
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The commercialization, selfish grab-assing, and frequent corruption and fraud that goes with it is just plain tasteless to me.
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It's not like people have never seen others dressed up in tasteless costumes behaving like idiots.
Rosalyn Hoffman: A Generation in Need of Crystal Balls? Rosalyn Hoffman 2010
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The commercialization, selfish grab-assing, and frequent corruption and fraud that goes with it is just plain tasteless to me.
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It's not like people have never seen others dressed up in tasteless costumes behaving like idiots.
Rosalyn Hoffman: A Generation in Need of Crystal Balls? Rosalyn Hoffman 2010
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“Sometimes people respond in tasteless ways, sometimes in artistic ways.”
Conspiracy theories springing up in Internet chat rooms 2003
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That being said, I wouldn't call it "tasteless" - I felt like her being on the show was actually showing support for her husband.
PopSugar 2009
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A: Sedum sexangular (S. sexanulare), also commonly called tasteless stonecrop, is extremely tolerant of cold conditions.
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What is new is the fear Showtime seems to have about being called tasteless, or worse.
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ARDEN: No. Actually, arsenic is colorless, and odorless, and tasteless, which is one good thing, if you ` re trying to poison someone.
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"It's a very damaging mistake," the piece avers: "the idea that sniffing out the tasteless is the same thing as taste."
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