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Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
lacklustre
adjective
COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES
lacklustre (=not good or impressive)
▪ The team must improve on Saturday’s lacklustre performance.
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
▪ The corporation's profits increased dramatically this year, after a rather lacklustre performance last year.
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Lacklustre

Lackluster \Lack"lus`ter\, Lacklustre \Lack"lus`tre\, n. A lack of luster.

Lacklustre

Lackluster \Lack"lus`ter\, Lacklustre \Lack"lus`tre\ a.

  1. Wanting luster or brightness. ``Lackluster eye.''
    --Shak.

  2. Lacking spirit, liveliness, or enthusiasm; dull.

  3. Mediocre; as, a lackluster performance.

Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
lacklustre

chiefly British English spelling of lackluster (q.v.); for spelling, see -re.

Wiktionary
lacklustre

a. (qualifier: British) (alternative spelling of lackluster English)

WordNet
lacklustre
  1. adj. lacking brilliance or vitality; "a dull lackluster life"; "a lusterless performance" [syn: lackluster, lusterless, lustreless]

  2. lacking luster or shine; "staring with lackluster eyes"; "lusterless hair" [syn: lackluster, lusterless, lustreless]

Usage examples of "lacklustre".

The animals’ hot bodies shone like a dawn star amongst the lacklustre vegetation.

Five of its seven major moons were visible, various lacklustre crescents strung out across the ring plane.

They were already two kilometres high, well out over the lacklustre grey sea.

A trivial glimmer of light was penetrating the clouds, giving the world a lacklustre opacity.

Saul revelled in the banality of the view, the slate grey, the lacklustre billboard ads, peeling and out of date, the obscure graffiti.

He received the same lacklustre assent that I had, and then Swift went his way.

So what if she'd inherited her father's lacklustre face and fireplug physique?

His family business, the venerable Lattimore Fidelity Fund, tottered at the brink of ruin following several years of lacklustre performance.

Even the hole in the sky through which the lacklustre star shone down was swallowed up in her fury.

She nursed the girl herself, tending her day and night in the small back bedroom, sponging the sweat and heat from her body while the fever mounted, sitting beside the bed and holding her hot hand through the crisis, not leaving her even when it had broken and Sarah lay pale and wasted with the flesh melted off her face so that her features were bony and gaunt and her lacklustre eyes too large for the bruised cavities into which they had sunk.