Lacklustre

Definitions: Lacklustre

Lacklustre

Adjective

1. 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.
 

Synonyms: Lacklustre

Business

The lacklustre inflows of hard capital have been seen as the root cause of unemployment in South Africa, which is thought to be as high as 40 percent. (references)

Source: compiled by the editor from ICON Group International, Inc.; see credits.

Albanian

pa shkëlqim (dim, ground, mat), pa interes (arid, disinterested, incurious), pa gjallëri (dull, in expressive), i marrët. (various references)

Bulgarian 

потъмнял (dark, dim, discolored, discoloured, dull, tarnished). (various references)

Chinese 

� 光泽 (lackluster). (various references)

Czech

matný (dim, dull, frosted, opaque, vague), šerý (dim, dusky, murky, shadowy). (various references)

German

langweilig (boring, dead, dreary, dry, insipidly, lackluster, lifeless, pedestrian, prosy, slow, stuffily, stuffy, tedious, tediously, unamusing), trübe (bleak, blear, blearly, bleary, cheerless, cloudy, dark, dim, dimly, dismal, drab, dreary, dull, filmy, gloomy, grey, grim, indistinct, lackluster, misty, muddy, murky, sludge, somberly, turbid, turbid water), trüb (bleak, bleary, cheerless, cloudy, dim, drab, dull, filmy, fishy, gloomy, grey, grim, lackluster, misty, muddily, muddy, murky, somber, somberly, sombre, turbid, turbidly), stumpf (blunt, bluntly, dull, dulled, dullness, exarticulation stump, flat, lackluster, lusterless, lustreless, masculine, mat, matt, obtuse, pointless, snub, stem, stock, stolid, stolidly, stub, stump, stupid, toneless, truncated, trunk, turned-up), farblos (achromatic, characterless, colorless, colourless, colourlessly, drab, faded, flabby, Gray, lackluster, mousey, mousy, pallid, sallow, uncolored, uncoloured, wishy washy, withered). (various references)

Pig Latin

acklustrelay.(various references)

Portuguese

sem (minus, out, outside diameter, wanting, without), impreciso (blear, fuzzy, hit-and-miss, impregnable, inaccurate, incorrect, indefinite, indeterminate, sketchy, vague, wrong), embaçado (dimmish, lustrine), desbotado (dingy, faded, foxy, rusty, washed out, washy, withered), confuso (abrupt, abstruse, blear, cloudy, confused, disorderly, disturber, dizzy, hugger mugger, indistinguishable, intricate, jumbled up, labyrinthine, mazy, medley, messy, mixed, muddy, obscure, pell mell, perplexed, promiscuous, rigmarole, rough and tumble, tangly, topsy turvy), baço (Brown, dim, dingy, dull, dullness, ill humor, ill humour, lustreless, matt, Milt, spleen, swarthy, tarnished). (various references)

Russian 

тусклый (blear, bleary, dim, dingy, dull, faint, fishy, glazy, lackluster, mat, muddy, obscure, pale, sad, sunless, wan). (various references)

Serbo-Croatian

mutan (bleary, dim, dingy, feculent, mat, matted, muddy, roily, thick, troubled, turbid), bez sjaja (mat). (various references)

Spanish

pesado (awkward, boring, bulky, burdensome, cumbersome, difficult, dull, ghastly, grave, hard, heavy, heavyweight, hefty, hulking, importunate, irritating, labored, laboured, leaden, logy, muggy, non-volatile, nuisance, objectionable, onerous, pestiferous, pestilent, pestilential, ponderous, serious, sesquipedalian, slow, soupy, stodgy, unwieldy, valid, weary, weighty), inexpresivo (expressionless, inexpressive), deslustrado (dingy, dull, frosting, ground), deslucido (charmless, dingy, dull, pale, unmagical), apagado (blowing out, burnt-out, dead, dull, extinct, flat, muffled, murmurous, mutage, muted, off, out, preserved must, quenching, sad, slaking, smooth, thick, to blow down, to blow out, to de-commission). (various references)

Swedish

matt (depressed, dim, dull, dusty, faint, faintly, feeble, flat, frosted, jaded, languid, lustreless, mat, matt, tame, weak, wishy washy), glanslös (dead, dull, lack-lustre, lustreless). (various references)

Thai

ไม่แวววาว (lackluster), ที่น่าเบื่อ (bored, lackluster). (various references)

Turkish

mat (checkmate, darkish, dull, lackluster, mat, mate, Matt, opaque, sober), fersiz (dull, lackluster, lusterless), cansız (apathetic, apathetical, bloodless, colorless, dead, dead pan, dying, exanimate, feckless, flagging, heartless, inanimate, lackadaisical, lackluster, languid, lifeless, listless, poky, sapless, singsong, sluggish, soulless, spiritless, stagnant, toneless, torpid, weak, wishy washy, wishywashy). (various references)

Ukranian 

тьмяний (crepuscular, dim, dingy, dull, glaucous, glazed, glazy, obscure, opaque, sad, wan, waterish), без блиску (opaque). (various references)

Vietnamese 

lờ đờ (lackluster, sluggish). (various references)

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

Direct Anagrams: lackluster.

-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.

+1 letter: lacklusters.

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