TASTELESS


Meaning of TASTELESS in English

transcription, транскрипция: [ teɪstləs ]

1.

If you describe something such as furniture, clothing, or the way that a house is decorated as tasteless , you consider it to be vulgar and unattractive.

...a flat crammed with spectacularly tasteless objets d’art.

ADJ

2.

If you describe something such as a remark or joke as tasteless , you mean that it is offensive.

I think that is the most vulgar and tasteless remark I ever heard in my life.

ADJ

3.

If you describe food or drink as tasteless , you mean that it has very little or no flavour.

The fish was mushy and tasteless.

= flavourless

≠ tasty

ADJ

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