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tasteless

adj
/ˈteɪstləs/

Etymology

From taste + -less.

  1. derived from *teh₂g-✻
  2. derived from taxo
  3. derived from *tastāre✻
  4. derived from taster
  5. inherited from tasten
  6. suffixed as tasteless — “taste + less”

Definitions

  1. Having no flavour

    Having no flavour; bland; insipid.

    • Near-synonym: untasteable
    • They accused the cook of being a hack, claiming that the soup was tasteless.

  2. Lacking delicacy, refinement, and good taste

    Lacking delicacy, refinement, and good taste; unbecoming; crass.

    • 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.

The neighborhood

Derived

tastelessness, tastelessly

Vish — recursive loop

A definitional loop anchored at tasteless. Each word in the ring is defined by the next; follow the chain far enough and it folds back on itself. Scroll to it and watch.

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A definitional loop anchored at tasteless. Each word in the ring appears in the definition of the next; follow the chain far enough and it folds back on itself.

8 hops · closes at tasteless

curated · pre-corpus. live cycle detection across the full graph is the next major milestone.

sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA