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Definitions: Lackluster |
LacklusterAdjective1. Lacking brilliance or vitality; "a dull lackluster life"; "a lusterless performance". 2. Lacking luster or shine; "staring with lackluster eyes"; "lusterless hair". Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
Date "lackluster" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1917. (references) |
Synonyms: LacklusterSynonyms: lacklustre (adj), lusterless (adj), lustreless (adj). (additional references) |
Crosswords: Lackluster |
| English words defined with "lackluster": lacklustre, lusterless, lustreless. (references) |
| Domain | Usage | |
Screenplays | And we thought just because we didn't have any money or any place to go, that this would be a lackluster evening. (Buffy the Vampire Slayer; writing credit: Doreen Spicer) | |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | ||
| Thumbnail | Description & Credit |  | Lackluster comet LINEAR (C/1999 S4) unexpectedly threw astronomers a curve. Using the Hubble ...Credit: NASA. |
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Business | Trade observers said the lackluster Tokyo economy gave rise to a ready supply of cars, thus contributing to the influx of Japanese grey imports here. These are priced lower than the local distributor's prices. (references) | |
The slow progress of government reforms and the continuing reluctance to improve the uncompetitive foreign investment laws in Vietnam have also contributed to the lackluster economic performance in the advertising industry. (references) | ||
The market for paper and paperboard in Hong Kong contracted from approximately US$908 million in 1998 to approximately US$816 million in 1999, mainly due to the industry's restructuring and the lackluster performance of the economy. (references) | ||
Economic History | Jamaica | Comments: Despite a lackluster overall economy, Jamaica's construction sector continues to show some dynamism. (references) |
Uk | The poor performance and lackluster content available via WAP has for the time being stifled interest in mobile information services. (references) | |
Costa Rica | The strength in the nontraditional export and tourism sector is masking a relatively lackluster performance by traditional sectors, including agriculture. (references) | |
Source: compiled by the editor from ICON Group International, Inc.; see credits. | ||
| The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com. |
| Expression | Frequency per Day |
lackluster | 6 |
lackluster review | 3 |
lackluster world | 3 |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| Language | Translations for "lackluster"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | |
Chinese | 光泽 (lacklustre). (various references) | |
Farsi | تاریک (Blind, Caliginous, Dark, Dim, Dusky, Gloomy, Somber), تاروبی برق , بی نور (Glassy, Pale), بدون زرق وبرق . (various references) | |
German | glanzlos (dim, dull, flat, lusterless, lustreless, mat, mate). (various references) | |
Japanese Kanji | 業績不振に悩む (be distress by poor, lackluster business perfomance). (various references) | |
Pig Latin | acklusterlay.(various references) | |
Russian | тусклый (blear, bleary, dim, dingy, dull, faint, fishy, glazy, lacklustre, mat, muddy, obscure, pale, sad, sunless, wan). (various references) | |
Spanish | sin brillo. (various references) | |
Thai | ไม่แวววาว (lacklustre), ที่น่าเบื่อ (bored, lacklustre). (various references) | |
Turkish | mat (checkmate, darkish, dull, lacklustre, mat, mate, Matt, opaque, sober), fersiz (dull, lacklustre, lusterless), cansız (apathetic, apathetical, bloodless, colorless, dead, dead pan, dying, exanimate, feckless, flagging, heartless, inanimate, lackadaisical, lacklustre, languid, lifeless, listless, poky, sapless, singsong, sluggish, soulless, spiritless, stagnant, toneless, torpid, weak, wishy washy, wishywashy). (various references) | |
Vietnamese | lờ đờ (lacklustre, sluggish). (various references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references. | ||
Derivations | |
Words beginning with "lackluster": lacklusters. (additional references) | |
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"Lackluster" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: Lecklitner, lucklustre. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
| # of Phoneme Matches | Pronunciation | Word(s) rhyming with "lackluster" (pronounced la"klu'ster) |
| 4 | -u' s t er | blockbuster, filibuster, gangbuster. |
| 3 | -s t er | adjuster, administer, alabaster, ancestor, aster, banister, bannister, barrister, blaster, blister, bluster, bolster, booster, broadcaster, burgomaster, Buster, canister, cannister, caster, Castor, cloister, cluster, coaster, concertmaster, coster, Dempster, Dexter, digester, disaster, dumpster, duster, Easter, ester, faster, Feaster, fester, fluster, forecaster, Forester, Foster, gangster, Gaster, grandmaster, hamster, harvester, headmaster, heister, holster, huckster, imposter, impostor, investor, jester, juster, keister, kiester, laster, Leister, Lister, lobster, Luster, lustre, master, minister, Minster, Mister, mobster, molester, monster, muenster, Munster, muster, nester, Nestor, newscaster, oldster, oleaster, ouster, oyster, paster, pastor, pester, pilaster, plaster, pollster, polyester, poster, postmaster, prankster, protester, quartermaster, raster, register, requester, rester, ringmaster, roadster, roaster, roister, rooster, roster, royster, schoolmaster, scoutmaster, seamster, semester, sequester, shyster, sinister, sister, spinster, sportscaster, stepsister, taskmaster, taster, teamster, tester, thruster, tipster, toaster, toastmaster, transistor, trickster, trimester, twister, Ulster, upholster, waster, Webster, Wester, youngster, zoster. |
Source: compiled by the editor (additional references); see credits. | ||
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "a-c-e-k-l-l-r-s-t-u" | |
-1 letter: scutellar. | |
-2 letters: caulkers, scutella, tacklers, truckles. | |
-3 letters: allures, auklets, calkers, callers, callets, cartels, caulker, cellars, clarets, cluster, crestal, crustal, cullers, cullets, curates, curtals, cutlers, estrual, lackers, laurels, lustral, rackets, recalls, recusal, relucts, restack, retacks, ruckles, saluter, scarlet, scleral, sculker, sculler, secular, slacker, stacker, stalker, stellar, suckler, sulcate, tackers, tackler, tackles, talkers, truckle, tuckers. | |
-4 letters: acuter, acutes, alerts, allure, alters, artels, auklet, calker, caller, callet, callus, carets, carles, cartel, cartes, casket, caster, castle, caters, caules, caulks, causer, cellar, cesura, claret, clause, clears, cleats, clerks, crakes, crates, creaks, cruets, cruset, cuesta, culets, culler, cullet, curate, curets, curtal, cutlas, cutler, eclats, eructs, estral, krauts, kurtas, lacers, lacker, lakers, laster, latkes, laurel, lucres, luster, lustra, lustre, luteal, racket, rackle, ratels, reacts, recall, recast, rectal, rectus, recuts, reluct, result, retack, ruckle, rustle, sacker, sallet, salter, salute, saucer, saurel, scaler, sclera, screak, skater, slaker, slater, staler, stelar, stella, strake, streak, struck, sucker, suckle, sulcal, sulker, sutler, tacker, tackle, takers, talers, talker, taller, taluks, traces, tracks, truces, trucks, trulls, tucker, tulles, tusker, ulcers, ulster, ultras, urates. | |
-5 letters: acres, acute, alecs, alert, alter, arcus, arles, artel, asker, aster, aures, cakes, calks, calls, cares, caret, carks, carle, carls, carse, carte, carts, caste, cater, cates, caulk, cauls, cause, cella, cells, celts, cesta, clast, clear, cleat, clerk, clues, crake, crate, creak, crest, cruel, cruet, cruse, crust, cukes, culet, culls, cults, cures, curet, curls, curse, curst, cuter, cutes, earls, eclat, ecrus, eruct, escar, eskar, kales, karst, karts, kraut, kurta, lacer, laces, lacks, laker, lakes, lares, larks, laser, later, latke, leaks, lears, least, luces, lucks, lucre, lures, lurks, lutea, lutes, races, racks, rakes, rales, ratel, rates, react, reals, recks, recta, recut, rucks, rules, saker, sauce, sault, saute, scale, scall, scare, scart, scaur, sculk, scull, scuta, scute, serac, seral, setal, skate, skull, slack, slake, slate, stack, stake, stale, stalk, stall, stare, stark, steak, steal, stela, stuck, stull, sucre, sural, sutra, taces, tacks, taels, taker, takes, talcs, taler, tales, talks, taluk, talus, tares, teaks, teals, tears, tells, tesla, trace, track, treks, truce, truck, trues, trull, tucks, tules, tulle, turks, ukase, ulcer, ultra, urase, urate, ureal, ureas, ursae. | |
| Words containing the letters "a-c-e-k-l-l-r-s-t-u" | |
+1 letter: lacklusters. | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. SCRABBLE® is a registered trademark. All intellectual property rights in and to the game are owned in the U.S.A and Canada by Hasbro Inc., and throughout the rest of the world by J.W. Spear & Sons Limited of Maidenhead, Berkshire, England, a subsidiary of Mattel Inc. Mattel and Spear are not affiliated with Hasbro. | |
Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)4C 61 63 6B 6C 75 73 74 65 72 |
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| Braille (1829, in France) (references)
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Morse Code (1836) (references).-.. .- -.-. -.- .-.. ..- ... - . .-. |
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Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)01001100 01100001 01100011 01101011 01101100 01110101 01110011 01110100 01100101 01110010 |
HTML Code (1990) (references)L a c k l u s t e r |
ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)004C 0061 0063 006B 006C 0075 0073 0074 0065 0072 |
| British Sign Language (Fingerspelling, BSL; 1992, British Deaf Association Dictionary of British Sign Language) (references)
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Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)46676977788785867184 |
| 1. Definition 2. Synonyms 3. Crosswords 4. Usage: Modern | 5. Images: Photo Album 6. Quotations: Non-fiction 7. Expressions: Internet 8. Translations: Modern | 9. Derivations 10. Rhymes 11. Anagrams 12. Orthography | 13. Bibliography |
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