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
- Having no flavour; bland, insipid
- Lacking delicacy, refinement and good taste; unbecoming, crass.
Translations
lacking refinement
- Finnish: mauton
- Russian: бестактный
Synonyms, Antonyms and Related Words
Doric,
arid, barbarian, barbaric, barbarous, barren, base, blah, bland, blank, bloodless, boorish, cacophonous, changeable, characterless, cheap, chintzy, clumsy, coarse, cold, colorless, crude, dead, dilute, diluted, dismal, distasteful, doggerel, draggy, drearisome, dreary, dry, dryasdust, dull, dusty, dysphemistic, effete, elephantine, empty, etiolated, fade, flashy, flat, flavorless, garish, gauche, gaudy, graceless, gross, gruelly, halfhearted, harsh, heavy, ho-hum, hollow, ill-flavored, improper, impure, in bad taste, inane, inappropriate, inconcinnate, inconcinnous, incorrect, indecent, indecisive, indecorous, indelicate, indifferent, inelegant, inexcitable, infelicitous, infirm of
purpose, infirm of will, insipid, irresolute, jejune, leaden, lifeless, loud, low, low-spirited, maladroit, meretricious, mild, milk-and-water, milky, mushy, neutral, offensive, outlandish, pale, pallid, pappy, pedestrian, plodding, pointless, poky, ponderous, pulpy, rude, sapless, savorless, slow, solemn, spiceless, spiritless, stale, sterile, stiff, stodgy, stuffy, superficial, tawdry, tedious, thin, unaesthetic, unappetizing, unbecoming, unbeseeming, uncourtly, uncouth, uncultivated, uncultured, undignified, uneuphonious, unfelicitous, unfitting, unflavored, ungenteel, ungraceful, uninteresting, unlively, unpolished, unrefined, unsavory, unseemly, unsuitable, untasteful, vapid, vulgar, washy, watered, watered-down, watery, weak, wild, wishy-washy, wooden, wrong