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

• ˈtastelessly, adverb
• ˈtastelessness, noun

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

They feed us on trays with tasteless and poorly cooked food as they do in Cuba.

From Washington Blade

We season the tasteless salad together or add mayonnaise and ketchup to the pasta they give us each day.

From Washington Blade

Even nutritional supplements that profess to be tasteless can still be an uncomfortable experience for your taste buds.

From Popular-Science

It’s relatively tasteless, but its popularity probably can be chalked up to its ease of preparation — and that weirdly satisfying moment when people tear into them on camera.

From Washington Post

Early iterations were like carpet in a bathroom, gross and perplexing — the result of inferior beans and faulty processing methods which left the end product tasteless and susceptible to rancidity.

From Eater

The tasteless bread was transformed into a sweet cake that included ingredients, such as dried fruit and marzipan.

From The Daily Beast

The claim by Hamas was just another tasteless tactic in the never-ending psychological war on Israel.

From The Daily Beast

They treated his rantings as a tasteless form of benign political posturing.

From The Daily Beast

After making a tasteless knock-knock joke in court, West celebrated by eating ice cream with his daughters.

From The Daily Beast

The Sacramento Bee went on to publish a tasteless cartoon making the same point.

From The Daily Beast

The good Hindoos amuse themselves for hours together with these tasteless repetitions.

From Project Gutenberg

The flesh of the sting-rae was not pleasant to eat, being rather tough and tasteless, so I used it as a bait for sharks.

From Project Gutenberg

Its unpalatable character led to various devices to render it tasteless and make it more acceptable to the stomach.

From Project Gutenberg

However, there must be many Arthur Dillons, the Irish being so numerous, and tasteless in the matter of names.

From Project Gutenberg

It crystallises in pearly white plates, which are odourless and almost tasteless.

From Project Gutenberg

Related Words

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