tasteless
pronunciation
How to pronounce tasteless in British English:
UK [ˈteɪstləs]
How to pronounce tasteless in American English:
US [ˈteɪstləs]
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- Adjective:
- lacking flavor
- lacking aesthetic or social taste
- not pleasing to the sense of taste
- deficient in tastefulness
Word Origin
- tasteless (adj.)
- 1590s, "unable to taste;" c. 1600, "uninteresting, insipid" (figurative); 1610s, "having no taste;" 1670s, "tactless;" from taste (n.) + -less. Related: Tastelessly; tastelessness.
Example
- 1. Symptom : beer tasteless , front of your shirt is wet .
- 2. A day earlier , mr putin 's own co-pilot , dmitry medvedev , russia 's president , had remarked that it was tasteless to make political capital out of people 's grief .
- 3. The bad sex in fiction prize was set up by auberon waugh in 1993 to highlight and hopefully discourage the " crude , tasteless , and often perfunctory use of redundant passages of sexual description in contemporary novels " .
- 4. We 're used to press behaviour being decried as tasteless or tactless .
- 5. The goal of the experiments was to find a tasteless , odorless chemical that could not be detected post mortem .