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English
Etymology
From taste + -less.
Pronunciation
Adjective
tasteless (comparative more tasteless, superlative most tasteless)
- Having no flavour; bland; insipid.
- Hypernym: untasty
- Coordinate term: distasteful
- Near-synonym: untasteable
They accused the cook of being a hack, claiming that the soup was tasteless.
- Lacking delicacy, refinement, and good taste; unbecoming; crass.
- Synonyms: untasteful; see also Thesaurus:gaudy
- Antonym: tasteful
They accused the designer of being a tasteless hack.
That was a rather tasteless attack on the designer, especially given that many people like the design.
Derived terms
Translations
having no flavour
- Armenian: անհամ (hy) (anham)
- Bulgarian: безвкусен (bg) (bezvkusen)
- Catalan: sonso (ca), sense sabor, sense gust, insípid (ca)
- Chinese:
- Cantonese: 淡 (taam5), 冇味 (mou5 mei6), 淡茂茂 (yue) (taam5 mau4 mau4), 淡而無味 / 淡而无味 (taam5 ji4 mou4 mei6)
- Mandarin: 淡 (zh) (dàn), 不美味 (zh) (bù měiwèi), 淡而無味 / 淡而无味 (zh) (dàn'érwúwèi)
- Danish: smagløs
- Dutch: smakeloos (nl)
- Finnish: mauton (fi)
- French: fade (fr)
- Georgian: უგემური (ugemuri)
- German: geschmacklos (de)
- Greek: άγευστος (el) (ágefstos)
- Ancient: ἄγευστος (ágeustos)
- Hungarian: ízetlen (hu), íztelen (hu)
- Indonesian: tawar (id)
- Irish: leamh
- Italian: insipido (it), insapore (it)
- Japanese: 味のない (ja) (あじのない, aji no nai), 不味い (ja) (まずい, mazui)
- Kazakh: дәмсіз (dämsız)
- Korean: 맛없다 (ko) (madeopda)
- Kurdish:
- Central Kurdish: بێتام (bêtam)
- Northern Kurdish: bêtam (ku)
- Ladino: shavdo
- Latin: insulsus
- Macedonian: безвкусен (bezvkusen)
- Maori: kōwhau
- Northern Mansi: (please verify) атта̄л (attāl)
- Norwegian: flau (no)
- Bokmål: smakløs (no), smaklaus
- Nynorsk: smaklaus
- Occitan: insipid (oc)
- Ottoman Turkish: طاتسز (tatsız), لذتسز (lezzetsiz), یاوان (yavan)
- Plautdietsch: schmaklooss, fleiw
- Polish: bez smaku
- Portuguese: insípido (pt)
- Romanian: fără gust, insipid (ro), fad (ro), searbăd (ro)
- Russian: безвку́сный (ru) (bezvkúsnyj), пре́сный (ru) (présnyj), невку́сный (ru) (nevkúsnyj)
- Scottish Gaelic: ana-blasta
- Spanish: insípido (es), desabrido (es), soso (es)
- Swedish: smaklös (sv)
- Tagalog: mayapa
- Telugu: రుచిలేని (te) (rucilēni)
- Thai: จืด (th) (jʉ̀ʉt)
- Turkish: tatsız (tr)
- Vietnamese: lạt (vi), nhạt (vi)
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