LUSTERLESS Synonyms: 86 Similar and Opposite Words

lusterless

adjective

Definition of lusterless

as in dulled

lacking a surface luster or gloss a small tombstone of lusterless granite marks his modest grave

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Adjective

Coach Sean McVay’s strategy of arriving the day before the game backfired and resulted in a dull performance by a team featuring some of the NFL’s biggest stars.

— Los Angeles Times, Los Angeles Times, 11 Sep. 2026
If Khrzhanovsky’s goal was re-creating social and cultural conditions to capture drama at its purest, then the result merely proves Hitchcock’s refrain that drama is life with dull bits cut out.

— Siddhant Adlakha, IndieWire, 9 Sep. 2026

Definition of dull

Adjective

Images on social media showed rescuers pulling the woman from the house, wrapped in a gray blanket.

— Jon Haworth, ABC News, 5 Sep. 2026
The 237 rooms and suites are serene, understated, and elegant, with paneled walls in dove gray and pale blue; beige marble and gold bathrooms; and the amenity du jour, pillow menus.

— Eddi Fiegel, Robb Report, 3 Sep. 2026

Definition of gray

Adjective

That flat premium is covering a bigger downside risk for truck and SUV owners than for the average sedan driver.

— Lauren Jarvis-Gibson, Miami Herald, 11 Sep. 2026
In retirement, Maines traded South Florida’s hurricanes and flat terrain for the mountains of western North Carolina.

— Sally Kestin, Sun Sentinel, 11 Sep. 2026

Definition of flat

Adjective

Despite my awareness of this image, there was also the dim sense that her kind of glamorous feminism didn’t directly apply to the kind my grandmothers had needed.

— Brittany Allen, Literary Hub, 3 Sep. 2026
Instead of lying down and trying to force yourself to hit the sack, Harris says to get up and do a quiet activity in the dim light.

— Helen Carefoot, Flow Space, 1 Sep. 2026

Definition of dim

Adjective

The pinkish squid glided two miles beneath the surface, its long, pale legs trailing from undulating fins, stunning scientists who know remarkably little about its diet, behavior or reproduction.

— Fedor Zarkhin, Los Angeles Times, 5 Sep. 2026
If the opening sequence seemed pale and crude, there was quickly almost too much detail.

— John Phipps, New Yorker, 5 Sep. 2026

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