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tasteless

tasteless

11 2.6
Having little or no flavor when you eat it
  • adjective
  • /ˈteɪstləs/
translation icon : insípido
  • Unlike CBD oils, Caliper CBD powder is completely tasteless and mixes easily in any food or drink.
  • odorless and tasteless
  • colorless and tasteless

Just one little cap in your dog's water and odorless and tasteless and their breath will be great.

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Examples

  • I recently stopped eating almost all veggie oils, but I need something tasteless for frying sometimes.

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  • The soup was bland and tasteless, leaving us disappointed with our meal.

  • I find it to be dry and pretty tasteless, so it eventually got left out.

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  • Life has been dead, tasteless.

  • As for her recipes working, I have made 4; 2 were tasteless and 2 were really good.

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  • But no one is holding a gun to my head to buy the stupid, tasteless processed food.

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  • But the liquid was as tasteless and odorless as rain.

    Fiction book (2002)
  • Even if we have riches, knowledge, and fame, life, nevertheless, would seem tasteless without love!

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  • By the time the codfish reached China, the flesh was mush and tasteless.

  • I can't abide eating apples from a store now, so tasteless and mealy, yuck!

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Synonyms

bland
vstasteless
23 2.0

Food that has a very weak taste and little or no strong flavor

means lack of perceptible flavor rather than general dullness
insipid
vstasteless
17 7.3

Having little taste and being boring

focuses narrowly on absence of perceptible taste, not added dullness
flavorless
vstasteless
  • US
4 3.5

Food that has little or no taste and seems bland

has no perceptible flavor or taste
unappetizing
vstasteless
4 4.8

Not looking, smelling, or tasting good so you do not want to eat it

is about lacking perceptible flavor only, not appearance or smell
savorless
vstasteless
  • US
7.5

Having very little taste

is about simple absence of detectable taste rather than added dullness
vapid
vstasteless
8.2

Food or drink that has little taste

refers only to absence of perceptible flavor rather than emptiness
untasty
vstasteless
4.9

Food or a dish that is not pleasant to eat because it has little taste

describes absence of perceptible flavor rather than just unpleasantness

Antonyms

175 1.0

Food or drink with a pleasant flavor that people enjoy

How Tasty

delicious
419 1.0
flavorful
  • US
18 2.3
tasty
175 1.0
bland
23 2.0
tasteless
11 2.6

Surface Forms

tasteless positive
tastelier comparative
tastelessness positive

Morphology

tasteless = taste (transparent) = taste + less

The adjective is transparently formed from 'taste' + '-less', meaning without taste.

Etymology

Tasteless is simply taste + -less, where -less means 'without', so it literally means 'without taste' and describes food that has no flavor.