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Definition of Tasteless
1. Adjective. Lacking flavor.
Also: Unappetising, Unappetizing, Unpalatable
Similar to: Bland, Flat, Flavorless, Flavourless, Insipid, Savorless, Savourless, Vapid, Nonflavored, Nonflavoured, Unflavored, Unflavoured, Unsalted, Unseasoned
Derivative terms: Tastelessness
Antonyms: Tasty
2. Adjective. Lacking aesthetic or social taste.
Also: Inelegant, Pretentious
Similar to: Barbaric, Brassy, Cheap, Flash, Flashy, Garish, Gaudy, Gimcrack, Loud, Meretricious, Tacky, Tatty, Tawdry, Trashy, Brummagem, Camp, Campy, Indelicate, Off-color, Off-colour, Ostentatious, Pretentious
Antonyms: Tasteful
Derivative terms: Tastelessness
Definition of Tasteless
1. a. Having no taste; insipid; flat; as, tasteless fruit.
Definition of Tasteless
1. Adjective. Having no flavour; bland, insipid ¹
2. Adjective. Lacking delicacy, refinement and good taste; unbecoming, crass. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Tasteless
1. [adj]
Medical Definition of Tasteless
1. 1. Having no taste; insipid; flat; as, tasteless fruit. 2. Destitute of the sense of taste; or of good taste; as, a tasteless age. 3. Not in accordance with good taste; as, a tasteless arrangement of drapery. Taste"lessly, Taste"lessness. Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998)
Lexicographical Neighbors of Tasteless
Literary usage of Tasteless
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. A Text-book of Pharmacology and Therapeutics by Arthur Robertson Cushny (1899)
"... a scarlet-red, amorphous powder, tasteless and odorless, almost insoluble in
water, but soluble in solution of iodide of potassium. ..."
2. The Catholic Encyclopedia: An International Work of Reference on the by Charles George Herbermann (1913)
"... West end and in the neighbourhoods of Bloomsbury, Marylebone, and May Fair,
but unfortunately the architecture of the period was heavy and tasteless. ..."
3. Dictionary of Painters and Engravers: Biographical and Critical by Michael Bryan (1886)
"Of these deficiencies we have evidence in his pictures in the Chiesa della Pace,
where his drawing of the nude is heavy and tasteless, and the movement of ..."
4. The Retrospect of Practical Medicine and Surgery: Being a Half-yearly edited by William Braithwaite, James Braithwaite, Edmond Fauriel Trevelyan (1845)
"An essential oil, of a strong odour and flavour, was long since prepared from it
and employed as a vermifuge. This tasteless principle ..."
5. The Horticulturist, and Journal of Rural Art and Rural Taste (1853)
"low as to arrest the ripening process entirely, often lose the power of resuming
it and are consequently immature, tasteless, and deficient in flavor. ..."
6. The Critical Review, Or, Annals of Literature by Tobias George Smollett (1808)
"... a grace and polish to his language,' which is very good where it makes no
pretension« to ornament, but remarkably tasteless where it affects elegance. ..."
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