tasteless

[ teyst-lis ]

adjective

1. having no taste or flavor; insipid.
2. dull; uninteresting.
3. lacking in aesthetic quality or capacity; devoid of good taste:

   a houseful of tasteless furnishings; a tasteless director of stale, dreary films.

4. lacking in politeness, seemliness, tact, etc.; unmannerly; insensitive:

   a tasteless remark.

5. lacking the physical sense of taste.

tasteless

/ ˈteɪstlɪs /

adjective

1. lacking in flavour; insipid
2. lacking social or aesthetic taste
3. rare.
   unable to taste

Derived Forms

• ˈtastelessness, noun
• ˈtastelessly, adverb

Other Words From

• tasteless·ly adverb
• tasteless·ness noun

Word History and Origins

Origin of tasteless¹

First recorded in 1585–95; taste + -less

Example Sentences

Rabbi David Mason, executive director of the Jewish Council for Racial Equality, said the post was "utterly tasteless".

From BBC

Rupert Murdoch, the Sun's owner, later said that headline had been "tasteless and wrong".

From BBC

A prematurely harvested durian can be as tasteless as a green banana.

From New York Times

Remember when Gilbert Gottfried was fired from his Aflac deal for making tasteless jokes about the earthquake and tsunami that devastated Japan?

From Salon

It allows a threat to democracy to appear as at worst a tasteless prank: in the 2016 presidential campaign even liberal outlets like The New York Times took Hillary Clinton’s e-mails far more seriously than Trump’s open stirring of hatred against Mexicans and Muslims.

From Salon

Related Words

• crass
• crude
• foolish
• garish
• off-color
• outlandish
• pretentious
• rude
• stupid
• tacky
• tawdry