lackluster
Meanings
Plural: lacklusters
Adjective Satellite
- lacking brilliance or vitality
- "a dull lackluster life"
- lacking luster or shine
- "staring with lackluster eyes"
Adj
- Lacking brilliance or intelligence.
- Having no shine or lustre; dull.
- Not exceptional; not worthy of special merit, attention, or interest; having no vitality.
Noun
- Lack of brightness or points of interest.
- A person or thing of no particular brilliance or intelligence.
Origin / Etymology
From lack + luster.
Synonyms
addlebrained, addlepated, airheaded, ass-brained, banal, beat, bee-brained, beef-witted, beefheaded, beetle-headed, birdbrained, blah, bland, blockheaded, Boeotian, boneheaded, boofheaded, boring, brainless, bubbleheaded, buffle-headed, bullet-headed, cerebrally challenged, childish, chowderheaded, chuckleheaded, cold, colourless, crackbrained, cretinous, dense, dented, dim, dim-bulb, dim-headed, dim-witted, dingy, doltish, dopey, dozy, drab, dreich, drowsy, dull, dull as dishwater, dull-headed, dull-minded, dull-witted, dumb, dumb as a bag of hammers, dumb as a box of rocks, dumb as a doorknob, dumb as a post, dumb as a sack of hammers, dumb as an ox, dumb as dirt, dumber than a box of rocks, dumber than a rock, dunderheaded, empty-headed, faint, fatheaded, feeble-minded, flat, flea-brained, foolish, fuckwitted, fuzzy-headed, fuzzy-minded, half-brained, half-witted, hammer-headed, ho-hum, humdrum, idiotic, imbecilic, inane, insipid, intellectually challenged, knuckleheaded, lackluster, lacklustre, lame, lamebrained, languid, leaden, lifeless, longsome, lowbrow, lumpish, lunkheaded, lusterless, lustreless, mentally challenged, mentally retarded, mindless, monosynaptic, monotonous, moronic, muddy, mundane, muttonheaded, nitwitted, no fun at parties, not the sharpest crayon in the box, not the sharpest knife in the drawer, not the sharpest tool in the shed, numbskulled, oafish, obtuse, pallid, peabrained, pedantic, pedestrian, plain, plodding, pratty, prosaic, prosy, pudding-headed, puerile, purblind, quarter-witted, retarded, rockheaded, sad, sharp as a bowling ball, sheep-headed, shit-for-brains, simple, slow, slow-witted, smooth-brained, snoozeworthy, sober, soporific, static, stodgy, stolid, straightforward, stupid, tedious, thick, thick as a brick, thick as a plank, thick as a whale omelette, thick as champ, thick as mince, thick as pig shit, thick as two short planks, thick-skulled, thickheaded, thickwitted, unapprehensive, unclever, uncolorful, uncool, unholiday, unintelligent, uninteresting, unsmart, vacant, vacuous, vanilla, vapid, wan, weaksauce, witless, wooden, wooden-headed, wool-headed, woolly-headed, woolly-minded
Scrabble Score: 16
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