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From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.44 [gcide]:
Tasteless \Taste"less\, adjective
1. Having no taste; insipid; flat; as, tasteless fruit.
2. Destitute of the sense of taste; or of good taste; as, a tasteless age. --Orrery.
3. Not in accordance with good taste; as, a tasteless arrangement of drapery; a tasteless remark. -- {Taste"less*ly}, adverb -- {Taste"less*ness}, noun
From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:
tasteless
adjective
1: lacking flavor [ant: {tasteful}]
2: lacking aesthetic or social taste [syn: {in poor taste(p)}] [ant: {tasteful}]
3: not pleasing to the sense of taste [syn: {insipid}]
4: deficient in tastefulness; "coarse and tasteless luxury"
From Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 [moby-thes]:
150 Moby Thesaurus words for "tasteless": Doric, arid, barbarian, barbaric, barbarous, barren, base, blah, bland, blank, bloodless, boorish, cacophonous, changeable, characterless, cheap, chintzy, clumsy, coarse, cold, colorless, crude, dead, dilute, diluted, dismal, distasteful, doggerel, draggy, drearisome, dreary, dry, dryasdust, dull, dusty, dysphemistic, effete, elephantine, empty, etiolated, fade, flashy, flat, flavorless, garish, gauche, gaudy, graceless, gross, gruelly, halfhearted, harsh, heavy, ho-hum, hollow, ill-flavored, improper, impure, in bad taste, inane, inappropriate, inconcinnate, inconcinnous, incorrect, indecent, indecisive, indecorous, indelicate, indifferent, inelegant, inexcitable, infelicitous, infirm of purpose, infirm of will, insipid, irresolute, jejune, leaden, lifeless, loud, low, low-spirited, maladroit, meretricious, mild, milk-and-water, milky, mushy, neutral, offensive, outlandish, pale, pallid, pappy, pedestrian, plodding, pointless, poky, ponderous, pulpy, rude, sapless, savorless, slow, solemn, spiceless, spiritless, stale, sterile, stiff, stodgy, stuffy, superficial, tawdry, tedious, thin, unaesthetic, unappetizing, unbecoming, unbeseeming, uncourtly, uncouth, uncultivated, uncultured, undignified, uneuphonious, unfelicitous, unfitting, unflavored, ungenteel, ungraceful, uninteresting, unlively, unpolished, unrefined, unsavory, unseemly, unsuitable, untasteful, vapid, vulgar, washy, watered, watered-down, watery, weak, wild, wishy-washy, wooden, wrong
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