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# tasteless

«tasteless» in Mova's school dictionary: **Tasteless food has little or no flavour** — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples.

### part of speech

adjective

### meaning for a pupil

1) Tasteless food has little or no flavour. [tree →](https://md.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://md.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://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/T/tasteless/#m3)

### sense 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://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/T/tasteless/#x1)
- The soup was tasteless, so we added salt. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/T/tasteless/#x2)
- When I had a cold, everything was tasteless. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/T/tasteless/#x3)
- Making fun of someone's illness is a tasteless joke. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/T/tasteless/#x4)
- The hospital food was a bit tasteless. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/T/tasteless/#x5)
- Some poisonous gases are tasteless and odourless, so we use alarms. [tree →](https://md.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://md.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.

### Trees and pragmatics

[Every meaning and example of «tasteless» parsed by Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/T/tasteless/), each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.