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TASTELESS
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I. (adjective)
Sense 1
Meaning:
Lacking aesthetic or social taste
Classified under:
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)
Sense 2
Meaning:
Lacking flavor
Classified under:
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)
