Tasteless
['teɪs(t)lɪs] or ['testləs]
Definition
(adj.) lacking aesthetic or social taste .
(adj.) lacking flavor .
Inputed by Bruno--From WordNet
Definition
(a.) Having no taste; insipid; flat; as, tasteless fruit.
(a.) Destitute of the sense of taste; or of good taste; as, a tasteless age.
(a.) Not in accordance with good taste; as, a tasteless arrangement of drapery.
Edited by Clio
Synonyms and Synonymous
a. Insipid, flat, without relish.
Edited by Guthrie
Synonyms and Antonyms
[See TAINT]
Typist: Millie
Examples
- Powdered opium is by no means tasteless. Arthur Conan Doyle. The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes.
- Nitrogen is colorless, odorless, and tasteless. Bertha M. Clark. General Science.
- The grotto was tricked out in the usual tasteless style observable in all the holy places of Palestine. Mark Twain. The Innocents Abroad.
- There was something insipid and tasteless to her, in the idea of a gentleman, a man who had gone the usual course through school and university. D. H. Lawrence. Women in Love .
- This gas proves to be colorless, tasteless, and odorless. Bertha M. Clark. General Science.
- A considerable improvement over this tasteless mass is self-raised bread. Bertha M. Clark. General Science.
- It is tasteless and inodorous and imparts no disagreeable taste or odor to the substance being treated. William K. David. Secrets of Wise Men, Chemists and Great Physicians.
- From these faded flowers Caroline had in her childhood extracted the honey; they were tasteless to her now. Charlotte Bronte. Shirley.
- Moreover the compound has anti-septic properties distinct from those of the acid, due to one of the other elements thereof, and is tasteless. William K. David. Secrets of Wise Men, Chemists and Great Physicians.
- They subsisted on shell fish, putrid whale's blubber, or a few tasteless berries and fungi. Walter Libby. An Introduction to the History of Science.
Typist: Millie