English > tasteless: 2 senses > adjective 2Meaning | lacking aesthetic or social taste. |
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Attribute of | taste, appreciation, discernment, perceptiveness | Delicate discrimination (especially of aesthetic values) |
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Narrower | Brummagem | cheap and showy |
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barbaric | unrestrained and crudely rich |
brassy, cheap, flash, flashy, garish, gaudy, gimcrack, loud, meretricious, tacky, tatty, tawdry, trashy | tastelessly showy |
camp, campy | Providing sophisticated amusement by virtue of having artificially (and vulgarly) mannered or banal or sentimental qualities |
indelicate, off-color, off-colour | In violation of good taste even verging on the indecent |
ostentatious, pretentious | (of a display) tawdry or vulgar |
See also | inelegant | lacking in refinement or grace or good taste |
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pretentious | making claim to or creating an appearance of (often undeserved) importance or distinction |
Opposite | tasteful | Free from what is tawdry or unbecoming |
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Spanish | insípido |
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Nouns | tastelessness | inelegance indicated by a lack of good taste |
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Adverbs | tastelessly | without taste or in poor taste |
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