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lustreless

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Adj.1.lustreless - lacking brilliance or vitality; "a dull lackluster life"; "a lusterless performance"
lackluster, lacklustre, lusterless
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.lustreless - lacking luster or shine; "staring with lackluster eyes"; "lusterless hair"
lackluster, lacklustre, lusterless
dull - emitting or reflecting very little light; "a dull glow"; "dull silver badly in need of a polish"; "a dull sky"
lustreless
adjective dull, flat, matt, faded, pale, tarnished, drab, lacklustre, washed out, lifeless, dingy, colourless, unpolished Her lustreless eyes were sunk deep in her face.
Translations
lustreless lusterless (US) [ˈlʌstəlɪs] ADJ [hair] → deslustrado; [eyes] → apagado
lustreless
adj → glanzlos; eyes, hair also → stumpf


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The last rays of the sun Lit but the tops of trees and mountain-peaks With tarnished glory; and the water's sheen, Once blue and bright, grew lustreless, and soon A welter of red clouds alone betrayed The passing of the sun.
A Lute of Jade by Cranmer-Byng, L. View in context
The grayness of the whole immense surface, the wind furrows upon the faces of the waves, the great masses of foam, tossed about and waving, like matted white locks, give to the sea in a gale an appearance of hoary age, lustreless, dull, without gleams, as though it had been created before light itself.
The Mirror of the Sea by Conrad, Joseph View in context
Why, he was literally skin and bone, and his fur was dull and lustreless.
The Golden Road by Montgomery, Lucy Maud View in context
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