Antonyms of adj tasteful
2 senses of tasteful
Sense 1
tasteful (vs. tasteless) -- (having or showing or conforming to good taste)
tasteless (vs. tasteful) -- (lacking aesthetic or social taste)
=> barbaric -- (unrestrained and crudely rich; "barbaric use of color or ornament")
=> brassy, cheap, flash, flashy, garish, gaudy, gimcrack, loud, meretricious, tacky, tatty, tawdry, trashy -- (tastelessly showy; "a flash car"; "a flashy ring"; "garish colors"; "a gaudy costume"; "loud sport shirts"; "a meretricious yet stylish book"; "tawdry ornaments")
=> Brummagem -- (cheap and showy; "a cheap Brummagem imitation")
=> camp, campy -- (providing sophisticated amusement by virtue of having artificially (and vulgarly) mannered or banal or sentimental qualities; "they played up the silliness of their roles for camp effect"; "campy Hollywood musicals of the 1940's")
=> indelicate, off-color, off-colour -- (in violation of good taste even verging on the indecent; "an indelicate remark"; "an off-color joke")
=> ostentatious, pretentious -- ((of a display) tawdry or vulgar)
Sense 2
neat, refined, tasteful -- (free from what is tawdry or unbecoming; "a neat style"; "a neat set of rules"; "she hated to have her neat plans upset")
INDIRECT (VIA elegant) -> inelegant -- (lacking in refinement or grace or good taste)
Similarity of adj tasteful
2 senses of tasteful
Sense 1
tasteful (vs. tasteless) -- (having or showing or conforming to good taste)
=> aesthetic, esthetic, artistic -- (aesthetically pleasing; "an artistic flower arrangement")
=> understated, unostentatious, unpretentious -- (exhibiting restrained good taste; "the room is pleasant and understated")
Also See-> elegant#1; unpretentious#1
Sense 2
neat, refined, tasteful -- (free from what is tawdry or unbecoming; "a neat style"; "a neat set of rules"; "she hated to have her neat plans upset")
=> elegant (vs. inelegant) -- (refined and tasteful in appearance or behavior or style; "elegant handwriting"; "an elegant dark suit"; "she was elegant to her fingertips"; "small churches with elegant white spires"; "an elegant mathematical solution--simple and precise and lucid")