Antonyms for lackluster

Grammar : Adj

Spell : lak-luhs-ter

Phonetic Transcription : ˈlækˌlʌs tər

Definition of lackluster

Origin : also lack-luster, c.1600, first attested in "As You Like It," from lack + luster. Combinations with lack- were frequent in 16c., e.g. lackland (1590s), of a landless man; lack-Latin (1530s), of an ignorant priest.

adj dull, lifeless

Example sentences :

They looked at us from their doors with lackluster eyes and apparent indifference.
Extract from : « Average Americans » by Theodore Roosevelt

Her son regarded her with lackluster eyes when she returned.
Extract from : « The Broken Gate » by Emerson Hough

Sandpaper this lightly with No. 00 paper when the stain has thoroughly dried, and put on a coat of lackluster or an equivalent.
Extract from : « Mission Furniture » by H. H. Windsor

Willard gazed through the window with lackluster eyes and shook his head feebly.
Extract from : « Left Half Harmon » by Ralph Henry Barbour

"I have nothing to tell her," said George—he raised two lackluster eyes and fixed them with a sort of dull stare on Lawson's face.
Extract from : « A Girl in Ten Thousand » by L. T. Meade

But she said it from her bed, her eyes fixed in a 155 lackluster stare on the little oval gleam of the miniature.
Extract from : « Out of the Air » by Inez Haynes Irwin

As it is, we bats a lackluster eye, an' wonders in a feeble way what's done corr'gated Enright's brow.
Extract from : « Faro Nell and Her Friends » by Alfred Henry Lewis

And yet, as Max looked at her—at this helpless, infirm old creature with the palsied hands and the lackluster eyes—he shivered.
Extract from : « The Wharf by the Docks » by Florence Warden

At last Max saw in the old woman's lackluster eyes a spark of malice.
Extract from : « The Wharf by the Docks » by Florence Warden

Synonyms for lackluster

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