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Lacklustre   Listen
adjective
Lacklustre, Lackluster  adj.  
1.
Wanting luster or brightness. "Lackluster eye."
2.
Lacking spirit, liveliness, or enthusiasm; dull.
3.
Mediocre; as, a lackluster performance.






Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48








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"Lacklustre" Quotes from Famous Books



... with hanging lip and lacklustre eyes, turned to stone; one, at full length upon the ground, bruised his face against the pine needles and called on the Virgin; the fourth, panic-stricken, leaped to his feet and dashed off into the darkness, to trouble us no more ...
— To Have and To Hold • Mary Johnston

... V. be dim, grow dim &c. adj.; flicker, twinkle, glimmer; loom, lower; fade; pale, pale its ineffectual fire [Hamlet]. render dim &c. adj.; dim, bedim[obs3], obscure; darken, tone down. Adj. dim, dull, lackluster, dingy, darkish, shorn of its beams, dark 421. faint, shadowed forth; glassy; cloudy; misty &c. (opaque) 426; blear; muggy|, fuliginous[obs3]; nebulous, nebular; obnubilated[obs3], overcast, crepuscular, muddy, lurid, leaden, dun, dirty; looming &c. v. pale ...
— Roget's Thesaurus



Words linked to "Lacklustre" :   dull, lusterless, lackluster, lustreless



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