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1 tasteless
1) (lacking flavour: tasteless food.) neokusen2) (showing a lack of good taste or judgement: tasteless behaviour.) neokusen* * *[téistlis]adjective ( tastelessly adverb)neokusen, netečen, neslan, plehek; netakten; dolgočasen -
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3 stale
[steil]1) ((of food etc) not fresh and therefore dry and tasteless: stale bread.) star, postan, preležan2) (no longer interesting: His ideas are stale and dull.) obrabljen3) (no longer able to work etc well because of too much study etc: If she practises the piano for more than two hours a day, she will grow stale.) izčrpan* * *I [stéil]1.nounseč, urin (konja, goveda);2.intransitive verb (o živalih) mokriti, puščati vodo, uriniratiII [stéil]nounBritish English obsolete vabnik, vaba (v obliki ptiča); predmet posmehovanja; bedakIII [stéil]1.adjective ( stalely adverb)star, nesvež, suh (kruh), trd; postan (pivo itd.); plesniv; slab, zadušljiv (zrak); izrahljen, obrabljen, ponošen, izčrpan; figuratively obrabljen, star, premlačen, banalen (dovtip itd.); commerce mrtev; juridically zastarel; sport preveč treniran, izčrpanstale bread — nesvež, star kruhthis is stale news — ta novica ni (ravno) nova;2.transitive verbodvzeti (čému) svežost (čar novosti, interes); napraviti staro (brez vrednosti), obrabiti, porabiti, izčrpati; intransitive verb postati zastarel (postan, plehek); figuratively postati dolgočasen -
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[teist] 1. verb1) (to be aware of, or recognize, the flavour of something: I can taste ginger in this cake.) čutiti2) (to test or find out the flavour or quality of (food etc) by eating or drinking a little of it: Please taste this and tell me if it is too sweet.) pokusiti3) (to have a particular flavour or other quality that is noticed through the act of tasting: This milk tastes sour; The sauce tastes of garlic.) imeti okus po4) (to eat (food) especially with enjoyment: I haven't tasted such a beautiful curry for ages.) jesti5) (to experience: He tasted the delights of country life.) okušati2. noun1) (one of the five senses, the sense by which we are aware of flavour: one's sense of taste; bitter to the taste.) okus2) (the quality or flavour of anything that is known through this sense: This wine has an unusual taste.) okus3) (an act of tasting or a small quantity of food etc for tasting: Do have a taste of this cake!) pokušnja4) (a liking or preference: a taste for music; a queer taste in books; expensive tastes.) okus5) (the ability to judge what is suitable in behaviour, dress etc or what is fine and beautiful: She shows good taste in clothes; a man of taste; That joke was in good/bad taste.) okus•- tasteful- tastefully
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- tastiness* * *I [téist]nounokus (čut, lastnost); pokušanje (jedi); pokušnja; košček (of česa), zalogaj; požirek, kapljica; priokus; umetniški okus; takt; smer okusa, moda; nagnjenje, posebna ljubezen ( for za); obsolete užiteka taste — malce, nekolikoout of taste, in bad taste — neokusento leave a bad taste in the mouth — (zlasti figuratively) pustiti slab okusto take a taste of s.th. — poskusiti grižljaj česaII [téist]transitive verb(p)okusiti, (p)okušati (jedi); preskusiti, preiskati; jesti majhne zalogaje; jesti, piti; (ob)čutiti, izkusiti, doživeti; poskušati; uživati; ohs (p)otipati; figuratively poskusiti; intransitive verb imeti okus (of po); figuratively dišati (of po); po(s)kusiti, doživeti (of kaj)to taste blood figuratively priti na okusto taste of salt — imeti okus po soli, po slanem
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