AskDefine | Define tasteless

Dictionary Definition

tasteless adj
1 lacking flavor [ant: tasteful]
2 lacking aesthetic or social taste [syn: in poor taste(p)] [ant: tasteful]
3 not pleasing to the sense of taste [syn: insipid]
4 deficient in tastefulness; "coarse and tasteless luxury"

User Contributed Dictionary

English

Adjective

  1. Having no flavour; bland, insipid
  2. Lacking delicacy, refinement and good taste; unbecoming, crass.

Translations

having no flavour
  • Finnish: mauton
  • Russian: безвкусный, пресный
  • Spanish: insípido
lacking refinement
  • Finnish: mauton
  • Russian: бестактный

Synonyms, Antonyms and Related Words

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