English > tasteless: 2 senses > adjective 2| Meaning | 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 | Having or showing or conforming to good taste |
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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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