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Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
tasteless
adjective
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
tasteless jokes
▪ a tasteless TV talk show
▪ a plate of tasteless, overcooked vegetables
▪ gaudy and tasteless designs
▪ I think a lot of modern architecture is completely tasteless.
▪ It was an ugly room with tasteless decorations and shabby furniture.
▪ The salad was limp and tasteless.
▪ Why is airplane food always so tasteless?
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
▪ Breakfast was a bowl of weak, milky coffee and a tasteless roll of bread.
▪ Cheap food need not be tasteless or boring.
▪ Comments ranged from tasteless, bland and bitter to very easy to drink.
▪ Eating the cake, he had felt it like tasteless dough in his mouth, every mouthful an act of shared indecency.
▪ I found none of the double entendres in Whiplash Whispers funny, and the illustrations were a bit tasteless.
▪ Rohypnol is tasteless, odorless, and up to 20 times more powerful than Valium.
▪ Sugar maple sap is nearly tasteless and about 98 percent water.
▪ The muffin is tasteless, being a very poor substitute for bread, which is served on the Continent.
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Tasteless

Tasteless \Taste"less\, a.

  1. Having no taste; insipid; flat; as, tasteless fruit.

  2. Destitute of the sense of taste; or of good taste; as, a tasteless age.
    --Orrery.

  3. Not in accordance with good taste; as, a tasteless arrangement of drapery; a tasteless remark. [1913 Webster] -- Taste"less*ly, adv. -- Taste"less*ness, n.

Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
tasteless

1590s, "unable to taste;" c.1600, "uninteresting, insipid" (figurative); 1610s, "having no taste;" 1670s, "tactless;" from taste (n.) + -less. Related: Tastelessly; tastelessness.

Wiktionary
tasteless

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

WordNet
tasteless
  1. adj. 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"

Usage examples of "tasteless".

As santonin is almost entirely tasteless, if not combined with other medicines which are unpalatable, no difficulty will be experienced in administering it to children.

We had but one spoon between us, and took turns with it, filling our bellies with warm, albeit tasteless, food.

There were anchovies and olives and tasteless Mediterranean fish with brown bread and a lobster and hard cheese, all washed down with Aleatico from Elba.

Vengeance, far from being sweet, is entirely tasteless, I thought, as I followed Chubby down to the beach.

The tasteless gazpacho came alive after I had a little dish of salt brought to the table and added two tiny pinches.

The spores of Club Moss constitute a fine pale-yellow, dusty powder which is unctuous, tasteless, inodorous, and only medicinal when pounded in all agate mortar until the individual spores, or nuts, are fractured.

It is a white, tasteless, and inodorous substance, used in the manufacture of candles.

It is in white, tasteless, inodorous, glistening, scaly crystals, insoluble in water.

He disliked the man from day one, and his tasteless display with Kylie verified his suspicions.

It was filled with pure white marbleized softened tallow -- tasteless, colorless, odorless animal fat that had been rendered in simmering water.

Emily, which, amidst the dissipation of the city had been obscured, but never obliterated from his heart, revived with all the charms of innocence and beauty, to reproach him for having sacrificed his happiness and debased his talents by pursuits, which his nobler faculties would formerly have taught him to consider were as tasteless as they were degrading.

It was strongly flavored and chewy and among the most satisfying meals he had ever eaten: not quite on the scale of uj cake, but so far from the odorless, tasteless, textureless field rations that it might well have been.

Edge thanked her sincerely and ate his breakfast with wolfish appetite, though it was only a small carp and as tasteless and textureless as all river carp.

No matter how much money Toret heaped upon her for clothing and jewelry, she retained the appearance of a well-paid but tasteless prostitute.

They made camp on the lee of a hill in a pine grove and supped on a meal of dried venison and crue, a tasteless but nourishing waybread, and they took their meal with hearty hot tea.