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# tasteless

adjective

«tasteless» in the English dictionary: everyday — its meanings, how the lessons use it, and examples, each with its tree on Mova.

## Everyday

1. Tasteless food has little or no flavour. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/T/tasteless/#m1)
2. Something tasteless is rude, unkind or not suitable, like a tasteless joke. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/T/tasteless/#m2)
3. Tasteless can describe clothes or decorations that look cheap or ugly. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/T/tasteless/#m3)

### In the lessons

In science lessons on senses, water is described as tasteless, odourless and colourless. In cooking, unseasoned food can be tasteless. In kindness lessons, a tasteless joke hurts or upsets people and should be avoided. Phrases: «tasteless food», «a tasteless joke».

### Examples

- Pure water is colourless, odourless and tasteless. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/T/tasteless/#x1)
- The soup was tasteless, so we added salt. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/T/tasteless/#x2)
- When I had a cold, everything was tasteless. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/T/tasteless/#x3)
- Making fun of someone's illness is a tasteless joke. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/T/tasteless/#x4)
- The hospital food was a bit tasteless. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/T/tasteless/#x5)
- Some poisonous gases are tasteless and odourless, so we use alarms. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/T/tasteless/#x6)
- ‘No,’ he replied, ‘the dishes are carefully cooked and sent up, but they are all so dreadfully tasteless.’ [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/T/tasteless/#x7)

### Note

Adjective: taste + -less (without). Opposite for food: «tasty»; opposite for behaviour: «tasteful». Trap: «distasteful» means unpleasant, close to the second sense. Carbon monoxide is tasteless and has no smell, which is why homes need detectors.

## On Mova

- [Trees and pragmatics of «tasteless» in the school dictionary](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/T/tasteless/): every meaning and example parsed by Mova, with its dependency tree and frames.
- [«tasteless» in the school dictionary](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/dictionaries/school/w/tasteless.html) on Mova free.