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lusterless

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lus·ter·less  (lstr-ls)
adj.
Lacking distinction, radiance, or vitality; dull: a lusterless performance; lusterless hair.
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Adj.1.lusterless - lacking brilliance or vitality; "a dull lackluster life"; "a lusterless performance"
lackluster, lacklustre, 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.lusterless - lacking luster or shine; "staring with lackluster eyes"; "lusterless hair"
lackluster, lacklustre, lustreless
dull - emitting or reflecting very little light; "a dull glow"; "dull silver badly in need of a polish"; "a dull sky"


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His arms hung helpless at his sides; of his eyes only he retained control, and these he dared not remove from the lusterless orbs of the apparition, which he knew was not a soul without a body, but that most dreadful of all existences infesting that haunted wood--a body without a soul
Can Such Things Be? by Bierce, Ambrose View in context
Stepan Arkadyevitch took the letter, looked with incredulous surprise at the lusterless eyes fixed so immovably on him, and began to read.
Anna Karenina by Tolstoy, Leo View in context
On parting he slipped upon my finger a curiously wrought ring set with a dead-black, lusterless stone, which appeared more like a bit of bituminous coal than the priceless Barsoomian gem which in reality it is.
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