The Collaborative International Dictionary
Lusterless \Lus"ter*less\, Lustreless \Lus"tre*less\, a. Destitute of luster; dim; dull.
Wiktionary
a. (''chiefly UK'') (alternative spelling of lusterless English)
WordNet
adj. lacking brilliance or vitality; "a dull lackluster life"; "a lusterless performance" [syn: lackluster, lacklustre, lusterless]
lacking luster or shine; "staring with lackluster eyes"; "lusterless hair" [syn: lackluster, lacklustre, lusterless]
Usage examples of "lustreless".
These are lustreless in ordinary use, but if touched by the vril wand they take a clear lambent flame, which illuminates, yet not burns.
Her eyes were lustreless, and her hair was besprinkled with gray, and yet the right man did not offer himself.
In every little cooped-up, dingy cavern of a hut, faint with the odor of burning Josh-lights and with nothing to see the gloom by save the sickly, guttering tallow candle, were two or three yellow, long-tailed vagabonds, coiled up on a sort of short truckle-bed, smoking opium, motionless and with their lustreless eyes turned inward from excess of satisfaction--or rather the recent smoker looks thus, immediately after having passed the pipe to his neighbor--for opium-smoking is a comfortless operation, and requires constant attention.