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Lusterless

Definitions: Lusterless

Lusterless

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.
 

Date "lusterless" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1869. (references)


Synonyms: Lusterless

Synonyms: lackluster (adj), lacklustre (adj), lustreless (adj). (additional references)

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Crosswords: Lusterless

English words defined with "lusterless": dim, dulllackluster, lacklustre, lustreless. (references)
Specialty definitions using "lusterless": OXIDIZED-FINISH PLATERplater helper. (references)

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Modern Translations: Lusterless

Language Translations for "lusterless"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses.

German

  

stumpf (blunt, bluntly, dull, dulled, flat, lackluster, lacklustre, lustreless, masculine, obtuse, pointless, snub, stolid, stolidly, stub, stump, stupid, toneless, truncated, turned-up), glanzlos (dim, dull, flat, lackluster, lustreless, mat, mate). (various references)

   

Pig Latin

  

usterlesslay

   

Turkish

  

fersiz (dull, lackluster, lacklustre). (various references)

Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

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Anagrams: Lusterless

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

Direct Anagrams: resultless.

Words within the letters "e-e-l-l-r-s-s-s-t-u"

-1 letter: streusels.

-2 letters: estruses, restless, ruleless, rustless, streusel, tressels.

-3 letters: lusters, lustres, resells, results, retells, russets, rustles, sellers, streels, sutlers, tellers, tressel, tresses, trusses, tussers, tussles, ulsters, useless.

-4 letters: elutes, esters, estrus, lesser, luster, lustre, reests, relets, resell, resets, result, retell, retuse, reuses, russet, rustle, seller, selles, serest, sleets, steels, steers, steles, steres, streel, stress.

 Words containing the letters "e-e-l-l-r-s-s-s-t-u"
 

+3 letters: trolleybusses.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Alternative Orthography: Lusterless


Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)

4C 75 73 74 65 72 6C 65 73 73

Leonardo da Vinci (1452-1519; backwards) (references)

American Sign Language (origins from 1620-1817 in Italy and, especially, France) (references)

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Semaphore (1791, in France) (references)

Braille (1829, in France) (references)

Morse Code (1836) (references)

.-..    ..-    ...    -    .    .-.    .-..    .    ...    ...

Dancing Men (Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, 1903) (references)

Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)

01001100 01110101 01110011 01110100 01100101 01110010 01101100 01100101 01110011 01110011

HTML Code (1990) (references)

&#76 &#117 &#115 &#116 &#101 &#114 &#108 &#101 &#115 &#115

ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)

004C 0075 0073 0074 0065 0072 006C 0065 0073 0073

British Sign Language (Fingerspelling, BSL; 1992, British Deaf Association Dictionary of British Sign Language) (references)

Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)

46878586718478718585

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Non-English Dictionaries with "Lusterless"

LanguageCoverageLanguage Translations

German

wörterbuch, Übersetzungdeutsch, Deutsche, alman

Turkish

sözlük, ansiklopedik sözlük, açıklama, belirleme, belirtme, kesinleştirme, tanım, tarif, seçiklik, tanımlama, tercümetürkisch, türkçe, türk

English

Dictionary, Definition, Translationenglisch, ingiltere, ingiliz, Íngílízce, ingilizce, Íngílíz, ýngilizce
 


INDEX

1. Definition
2. Synonyms
3. Crosswords
4. Translations: Modern
5. Anagrams
6. Orthography
7. Bibliography


  

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