Word Study
lackluster
WORDNET DICTIONARY
Adjective lackluster has 2 senses
- lackluster(s = adj.all) lacklustre, lusterless, lustreless - lacking brilliance or vitality; "a dull lackluster life"; "a lusterless performance"
- lackluster(s = adj.all) lacklustre, lusterless, lustreless - lacking luster or shine; "staring with lackluster eyes"; "lusterless hair"
CIDE DICTIONARY
lackluster, n.
A lack of luster. [1913 Webster]
lackluster, a.
- Wanting luster or brightness. Shak. [1913 Webster]
- Lacking spirit, liveliness, or enthusiasm; dull. [PJC]
- Mediocre; as, a lackluster performance. [PJC]
THESAURUS
lackluster
absence of color, achromatic, achromaticity, achromatism, achromic, anemic, ashen, ashy, betwixt and between, bled white, blind, bloodless, cadaverous, chloranemic, colorless, colorlessness, dead, deadened, deadly pale, deathly pale, dim, dimmed, dingy, discolored, drab, dull, dullness, etiolated, exsanguinated, exsanguine, exsanguineous, faded, faint, fair, fair to middling, fairish, fairishness, fallow, flat, ghastly, gray, haggard, hueless, huelessness, hypochromic, indifference, indifferent, insipid, leaden, lifeless, livid, lurid, lusterless, mat, mealy, mediocre, mediocreness, mediocrity, medium, middling, middlingness, moderate, moderateness, modest, modestness, modesty, muddy, muted, namby-pamby, neutral, of a kind, of a sort, of sorts, pale, pale as death, pale-faced, pallid, passable, passableness, pasty, prosaic, prosy, respectability, respectable, rusty, sallow, sickly, so-so, somber, tallow-faced, tarnished, tedious, tediousness, tolerable, tolerableness, toneless, tonelessness, uncolored, vapid, wan, washed-out, waxen, weak, whey-faced, white, wishy-washyROGET THESAURUS
lackluster
Dimness
N dimness, darkness, paleness, half light, demi-jour, partial shadow, partial eclipse, shadow of a shade, glimmer, gliming, nebulosity, cloud, eclipse, aurora, dusk, twilight, shades of evening, crepuscule, cockshut time, break of day, daybreak, dawn, moonlight, moonbeam, moonglade, moonshine, starlight, owl's light, candlelight, rushlight, firelight, farthing candle, dim, dull, lackluster, dingy, darkish, shorn of its beams, dark, faint, shadowed forth, glassy, cloudy, misty, blear, muggy, fuliginous, nebulous, nebular, obnubilated, overcast, crepuscular, muddy, lurid, leaden, dun, dirty, looming, pale, confused.Achromatism
N achromatism, decoloration, discoloration, pallor, pallidness, pallidity, paleness, etiolation, neutral tint, monochrome, black and white, uncolored &c (color), colorless, achromatic, aplanatic, etiolate, etiolated, hueless, pale, pallid, palefaced, tallow-faced, faint, dull, cold, muddy, leaden, dun, wan, sallow, dead, dingy, ashy, ashen, ghastly, cadaverous, glassy, lackluster, discolored, light-colored, fair, blond, white, pale as death, pale as ashes, pale as a witch, pale as a ghost, pale as a corpse, white as a corpse.
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