Synonyms: tasteless
Definition: lacking aesthetic or social taste
Similar words: barbaric
Definition: unrestrained and crudely rich
Usage: barbaric use of color or ornament
Similar words: meretricious, loud, cheap, brassy, flash, flashy, garish, gaudy, tacky, tatty, tawdry, trashy, gimcrack
Definition: tastelessly showy
Usage: a flash car; a flashy ring; garish colors; a gaudy costume; loud sport shirts; a meretricious yet stylish book; tawdry ornaments
Similar words: Brummagem
Definition: cheap and showy
Usage: a cheap Brummagem imitation
Definition: providing sophisticated amusement by virtue of having artificially (and vulgarly) mannered or banal or sentimental qualities
Usage: they played up the silliness of their roles for camp effect; campy Hollywood musicals of the 1940's
Similar words: indelicate, off-color, off-colour
Definition: in violation of good taste even verging on the indecent
Usage: an indelicate remark; an off-color joke
Similar words: ostentatious, pretentious
Definition: (of a display) tawdry or vulgar
Synonyms: tasteless
Definition: lacking flavor
Similar words: flat, flavorless, flavourless, bland, insipid, vapid, savorless, savourless
Definition: lacking taste or flavor or tang
Usage: a bland diet; insipid hospital food; flavorless supermarket tomatoes; vapid beer; vapid tea
Similar words: unflavored, unflavoured, nonflavored, nonflavoured
Definition: without flavoring added
Similar words: unsalted, unseasoned
Definition: without salt or seasoning