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English
Etymology
From luster + -less.
Pronunciation
Adjective
lusterless (comparative more lusterless, superlative most lusterless)
- Without luster, dull, not shiny, flat or matte finished.
- Synonym: lackluster
1844, Edgar Allan Poe, The Premature Burial:The lips were of the usual marble pallor. The eyes were lustreless.
1894, George du Maurier, “Part First”, in Trilby: A Novel, New York, N.Y.: Harper & Brothers, →OCLC, pages 11–12:His thick, heavy, languid, lustreless black hair fell down behind his ears on to his shoulders, in that musicianlike way that is so offensive to the normal Englishman.
1961, V. S. Naipaul, A House for Mr Biswas, Vintage International, published 2001, Part Two, Chapter 5:His Chevrolet was larger, but old and unwashed; the mudguards had been dented, cut, welded; one door had been ducoed in a lustreless colour that did not exactly match […]
- Without brilliance, unremarkable.
1967, William Trevor, “Children of the Headmaster”, in Collected Stories, Penguin, published 1992, page 1237:The school was a triumph for her husband after a lustreless career in Hong Kong, but it had brought her low.
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