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lacklustre

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lacklustre or US lackluster
Adjective
lacking brilliance, force, or vitality
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Adj.1.lacklustre - lacking brilliance or vitality; "a dull lackluster life"; "a lusterless performance"
lackluster, lusterless, lustreless
dull - lacking in liveliness or animation; "he was so dull at parties"; "a dull political campaign"; "a large dull impassive man"; "dull days with nothing to do"; "how dull and dreary the world is"; "fell back into one of her dull moods"
2.lacklustre - lacking luster or shine; "staring with lackluster eyes"; "lusterless hair"
lackluster, lusterless, lustreless
dull - emitting or reflecting very little light; "a dull glow"; "dull silver badly in need of a polish"; "a dull sky"
lacklustre
adjective flat, boring, dull, dim, dry, muted, sombre, drab, lifeless, prosaic, leaden, unimaginative, uninspired, unexciting, vapid, lustreless
Translations
lacklustre, lackluster (US) [ˈlæklʌstəʳ] adj [surface] → deslustrado, deslucido; [style] → inexpresivo; [eyes] → apagado
lacklustre [ˈlæklʌstəʳ] adj → terne
lacklustre (US) lackluster [ˈlæklʌstəʳ] adj → farblos, langweilig
lacklustre (US), lackluster [ˈlæklʌstəʳ] adj [surface] → opaco/a; [style] → scialbo/a; [eyes] → spento/a


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At such times, when the fun rippled and soared from height to height, suddenly, without rhyme or reason, his eyes would turn lacklustre, his brows knit, as with clenched hands and face overshot with spasms of mental pain he wrestled on the edge of the abyss with some unknown danger.
Moon-Face and Other Stories by London, Jack View in context
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