styleless

adjective

Definition of stylelessnext
as in inappropriate
marked by an obvious lack of style or good taste forced to wear a styleless uniform for her restaurant job, she loves to dress up on weekends

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Recent Examples of Synonyms for styleless
  1. inappropriate
  2. unsuitable
  3. unfashionable
  4. unstylish
  5. tasteless
  6. inelegant
  7. incorrect
  8. wrong
Adjective
  • In his Wednesday interview on French radio, French FM Barrot suggested that Musk's interventions in European nations' domestic politics were even more inappropriate because Musk is part of President-elect Trump's government-in-waiting.
    Tom Soufi Burridge, ABC News, 9 Jan. 2025
  • John Anthony Ayala, of Colton and who previously worked at Inland Peak Performance and F1 Training in San Bernardino, sent inappropriate texts to the girl, according to a Jan. 3 news release by the San Bernardino County Sheriff’s Department Highland station.
    Paloma Chavez, Sacramento Bee, 7 Jan. 2025
Definition of inappropriate
Adjective
  • This mismatch results in recruiters spending excessive time reviewing unsuitable applications, with 22% dedicating three to five hours daily to this task.
    Jack Kelly, Forbes, 15 Jan. 2025
  • Uncovering a Forgotten History The discovery was initiated by a 1930s agricultural report referencing untended land filled with graves and trees—an area unsuitable for cultivation.
    Gordon G. Chang, Newsweek, 12 Dec. 2024
Definition of unsuitable
Adjective
  • Marino is an eclectic collector, often choosing unfashionable objects like cookie jars, or Renaissance and Baroque bronzes.
    Miles Socha, WWD, 5 Dec. 2024
  • In a squad enriched with European pedigree, Cash is one of the more unfashionable players, less flashy, more functional.
    Jacob Tanswell, The Athletic, 21 Nov. 2024
Definition of unfashionable
Adjective
  • The piece is an antique that wasn't fashionable for many decades, but many jewels once considered fussy or unstylish have now been embraced again.
    Stephanie Petit, Peoplemag, 8 Dec. 2023
  • Slippery soles, cold toes, and unstylish footwear should be avoided at all costs.
    Roxanne Adamiyatt, Town & Country, 29 Dec. 2022
Definition of unstylish
Adjective
  • Particularly, with the juxtaposition of the tragedy of the fires makes the kind of vain posturing look more tasteless.
    Rosemary Feitelberg, WWD, 10 Jan. 2025
  • But more is at play in The Substance, which is also tasteless, silly, and — even at its grossest — easy to digest.
    Louis Peitzman, Vulture, 26 Dec. 2024
Definition of tasteless
Adjective
  • For such an inelegant behavior to be in chatbots as widespread and popular as GPT is a blunt reminder of two larger, seemingly contrary phenomena.
    Jonathan L. Zittrain, The Atlantic, 17 Dec. 2024
  • The result has been a competition that has felt, at times, unwieldy and inelegant and exhausting.
    Sam Lee, The Athletic, 12 Dec. 2024
Definition of inelegant
Adjective
  • According to a recent Prosper Insights & Analytics survey, 30% of workers are concerned with AI hallucinations, which is when AI generates incorrect information as a result of poor training or inaccurate assumptions.
    Gary Drenik, Forbes, 9 Jan. 2025
  • Approximately 780,000 incorrect charges totaling over 2 billion forints ($5.43 million) in one night.
    Tommy Tuberville, Newsweek, 9 Jan. 2025
Definition of incorrect
Adjective
  • After watching Darnold struggle Sunday, that doesn’t feel so wrong.
    Mike Sando, The Athletic, 6 Jan. 2025
  • Picking the wrong location Silicon Valley dominates startup success, with Boston and Seattle far behind (at least at the time of writing).
    Jodie Cook, Forbes, 6 Jan. 2025
Definition of wrong
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“Styleless.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/styleless. Accessed 20 Jan. 2025.

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