tactless

3 definitions found

tactless - Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 :

  Tactless \Tact"less\, a.
     Destitute of tact.
     [1913 Webster]

tactless - WordNet (r) 2.1 (2005) :

  tactless
      adj 1: lacking or showing a lack of what is fitting and
             considerate in dealing with others; "in the circumstances
             it was tactless to ask her age" [syn: tactless,
             untactful] [ant: tactful]
      2: revealing lack of perceptiveness or judgment or finesse; "an
         inept remark"; "it was tactless to bring up those
         disagreeable" [syn: inept, tactless]

tactless - Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 :

  95 Moby Thesaurus words for "tactless":
     abrupt, airy, awkward, blanket, bluff, blunt, boorish, brash,
     brusque, bungling, caddish, careless, casual, clumsy, coarse,
     crude, cursory, degage, discourteous, disregardant, disregardful,
     disrespectful, easygoing, flippant, forgetful, free and easy,
     gauche, general, gruff, heedless, ill-bred, impertinent, impolite,
     impolitic, imprudent, inconsiderate, indelicate, indifferent,
     indiscreet, indiscriminate, indiscriminative, inept, injudicious,
     insensitive, insouciant, lazy, loutish, louty, maladroit, nasty,
     nonjudgmental, oblivious, offensive, offhand, perfunctory,
     promiscuous, reckless, regardless, respectless, rough, rude,
     thoughtless, uncivil, uncivilized, uncouth, uncritical,
     uncriticizing, undemanding, undifferentiating, undiplomatic,
     undiscreet, undiscriminating, undiscriminative, unexacting,
     unfastidious, unfeminine, ungenteel, ungentle, ungentlemanly,
     unheedful, unheeding, unladylike, unmeticulous, unmindful,
     unparticular, unrefined, unselective, unsolicitous,
     unsophisticated, unsubtle, untactful, unthinking, unwise, vulgar,
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