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tasteless, a.|ˈteɪstlɪs|
Also 7–8 tastless.
[f. taste n.1 + -less.]
1. Destitute of the sense of taste; unable to taste. Also fig. Now rare.
1591Sylvester Du Bartas i. iv. 148 When wilfully his taste-less Taste delights In things unsavory to sound appetites. a1631Donne Funeral Elegy Poems (1654) 219 As aged men are glad Being tastlesse grown, to joy in joyes they had. 1704Cibber Careless Husb. v. (1705) 60 Won't you think me tastless to the Joy you've given me? 1713Rowe Jane Shore v. i, My tasteless Tongue cleaves to the clammy Roof. 1820C. R. Maturin Melmoth (1892) III. xxvii. 104 Every thing that could tempt the tasteless palate of age.
2. Without taste or flavour; exciting no sensation of taste; insipid.
1611Florio, Insaporito, vnsauorie, tastelesse. 1661–79Boyle Scept. Chem. iv. Wks. 1772 I. 533 He never was able to make them [chymical oils] tasteless. 1748Anson's Voy. ii. xii. 267 Very dry and tasteless food. 1831J. Davies Manual Mat. Med. 329 A powder of an orange yellow colour, inodorous, and tasteless.
3. fig. Exciting no interest; dull, insipid, uninteresting.
1603Florio Montaigne (1634) 143 Enterludes and commedies rejoyce and make us merry, but to players they are tedious and tastelesse. 1781Cowper Conversat. 715 The song of Sion is a tasteless thing, Unless when rising on a joyful wing. 1814Wordsw. Excurs. i. 612 A while on trivial things we held discourse, To me soon tasteless. 1822Lamb Elia Ser. i. Distant Corr., If it [sentiment] have time to cool, it is the most tasteless of all cold meats.
4. Devoid of good taste; of persons, lacking in discrimination, or in critical discernment and appreciation; of things, showing want of good taste.
1676G. Etherege Man of Mode iii. ii, Nature..puts sophisticate dulness often on the tasteless multitude for true wit and good-humour. 1709Swift in Lett. Lit. Men (Camden) 342 Your Lordship is universally admired by this tastless People. 1791Gilpin Forest Scenery ii. 75 It not only shews the hand of art; but of the most tastless art. 1843Prescott Mexico i. ii. (1864) 17 As different from their ancestors as are the modern Egyptians from those who built,—I will not say, the tasteless pyramids. 1853Kingsley Hypatia vii, The tasteless fashion of an artificial and decaying civilization.
Hence ˈtastelessly adv., in a tasteless manner; without taste.
1854Tait's Mag. XXI. 386 Even that comes tastelessly on the ear of the player on the world's stage, unless it is accompanied with a bouquet. 1880Daily News 30 Nov. 3/1 Their houses..are solidly if tastelessly furnished. |