TASTELESS

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does tasteless mean? 

• TASTELESS (adjective)
  The adjective TASTELESS has 2 senses:

1. lacking flavor

2. lacking aesthetic or social taste

  Familiarity information: TASTELESS used as an adjective is rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• TASTELESS (adjective)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Lacking flavor

Similar:

bland; flat; flavorless; flavourless; insipid; savorless; savourless; vapid (lacking taste or flavor or tang)

nonflavored; nonflavoured; unflavored; unflavoured (without flavoring added)

unsalted; unseasoned (without salt or seasoning)

Also:

unappetising; unappetizing (not appetizing in appearance, aroma, or taste)

unpalatable (not pleasant or acceptable to the taste or mind)

Attribute:

taste property (a property appreciated via the sense of taste)

Antonym:

tasty (pleasing to the sense of taste)

Derivation:

tastelessness (the property of having no flavor)

Sense 2

Meaning:

Lacking aesthetic or social taste

Similar:

barbaric (unrestrained and crudely rich)

brassy; cheap; flash; flashy; garish; gaudy; gimcrack; loud; meretricious; tacky; tatty; tawdry; trashy (tastelessly showy)

Brummagem (cheap and showy)

camp; campy (providing sophisticated amusement by virtue of having artificially (and vulgarly) mannered or banal or sentimental qualities)

indelicate; off-color; off-colour (in violation of good taste even verging on the indecent)

ostentatious; pretentious ((of a display) tawdry or vulgar)

Also:

inelegant (lacking in refinement or grace or good taste)

pretentious (making claim to or creating an appearance of (often undeserved) importance or distinction)

Attribute:

appreciation; discernment; perceptiveness; taste (delicate discrimination (especially of aesthetic values))

Antonym:

tasteful (having or showing or conforming to good taste)

Derivation:

tastelessness (inelegance indicated by a lack of good taste)

 Context examples 

An odorless, tasteless, poisonous gas, CO, that results from the incomplete combustion of carbon.

(Carbon monoxide, NCI Thesaurus)

Bah! And bah! again. The champagne is already flat. The sparkle and bubble has gone out and it is a tasteless drink.

(The Sea-Wolf, by Jack London)

But it was tasteless stuff and did not satisfy.

(Love of Life and Other Stories, by Jack London)

It is mostly found as a white, odorless, tasteless, waxy solid, with a melting point between 47C and 65C.

(Paraffin, NCI Thesaurus)

Powdered opium is by no means tasteless.

(The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

A white, odorless and tasteless, very stable, water-insoluble, synthetic, crystalline chlorinated hydrocarbon that is soluble in most organic solvents, fat and oils and tends to accumulate in ecosystems.

(Chlorophenothane, NCI Thesaurus)