tasteless - distasteful

tasteless - distasteful
'tasteless'
Something that is tasteless is vulgar and unattractive.

...tasteless ornaments.

Apart from a few tasteless remarks, he was reasonably well-behaved.

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Tasteless food has very little flavour.

...cold, tasteless pizzas.

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'distasteful'
If something is distasteful to you, you dislike it or disapprove of it.

Unnecessary slaughter of animals is distasteful to most people.

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Note that distasteful is not the opposite of `tasteful'.
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  • tasteless — [adj1] without flavor big zero*, blah*, bland, boring, distasteful, dull, flat, flavorless, insipid, mild, nowhere*, pabulum*, plain, plain vanilla*, savorless, stale, tame, thin, unappetizing, uninspired, uninteresting, unpalatable,… …   New thesaurus

  • distasteful — [adj] repulsive, unpleasant abhorrent, abominable, afflictive, bitter, detestable, disagreeable, dislikable, displeasing, flat, flavorless, galling, grievous, grody*, gross*, hateful, icky*, insipid, loathsome, nauseous, objectionable, obnoxious …   New thesaurus

  • distasteful — Synonyms and related words: abhorrent, abominable, bitter, detestable, disagreeable, disgusting, dislikable, displeasing, flat, flavorless, foul, foul tasting, fulsome, galling, grievous, hateful, ill flavored, insipid, intolerable, loathsome,… …   Moby Thesaurus

  • tasteless — Synonyms and related words: Doric, arid, barbarian, barbaric, barbarous, barren, base, blah, bland, blank, bloodless, boorish, cacophonous, changeable, characterless, cheap, chintzy, clumsy, coarse, cold, colorless, crude, dead, dilute, diluted,… …   Moby Thesaurus

  • distasteful — I (New American Roget s College Thesaurus) adj. unpalatable, unappetizing, unattractive, unpleasant, uninviting, disagreeable, offensive. See sourness, discourtesy.Ant., pleasant, appetizing. II (Roget s IV) modif. Syn. disagreeable, repugnant,… …   English dictionary for students

  • unpalatable — I (New American Roget s College Thesaurus) adj. distasteful, unsavory, unappetizing; insipid; inedible, uneatable, tasteless. See unsavoriness. II (Roget s IV) modif. Syn. unsavory, disagreeable, inedible, uneatable; see tasteless 1 . III (Roget… …   English dictionary for students

  • unappetizing — I (New American Roget s College Thesaurus) adj. unsavory, distasteful, repugnant; tasteless, insipid. See discourtesy, unsavoriness. II (Roget s 3 Superthesaurus) a. unappealing, nauseating, sickening, *stomach turning, *gross, disgusting,… …   English dictionary for students

  • unsavory — I (Roget s IV) modif. 1. [Tasteless] Syn. flavorless, bland, unappetizing; see dull 4 . 2. [Offensive] Syn. disagreeable, objectionable, crude, unpleasant, revolting; see also offensive 2 . II (Roget s 3 Superthesaurus) a. 1. tasteless or bad… …   English dictionary for students

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  • unsavory — adjective Date: 13th century 1. insipid, tasteless 2. a. unpleasant to taste or smell b. disagreeable, distasteful < an unsavory assignment >; especially morally offensive < unsavory business practices > …   New Collegiate Dictionary

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