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lustreless

lustreless is the alternative spelling of lusterless.

Meaning of lusterless

Adjective

lusterless (comparative more lusterless, superlative most lusterless)

  1. Without luster, dull, not shiny, flat or matte finished.
    • The lips were of the usual marble pallor. The eyes were lustreless.1844, Edgar Allan Poe, The Premature Burial
    Synonyms:
    lackluster
  2. Without brilliance, unremarkable.
    • The school was a triumph for her husband after a lustreless career in Hong Kong, but it had brought her low.1967, William Trevor, “Children of the Headmaster”, in Collected Stories, Penguin, published 1992, page 1237

Forms of lustreless

comparativemore lustreless
superlativemost lustreless

Origin of lustreless

From lustre + -less.

Words formed from lustreless

Questions about lustreless

What is lustreless the alternative spelling of?
Lustreless is the alternative spelling of lusterless.

Words near lustreless in the dictionary

  1. lustrations
  2. lustrative
  3. lustratory
  4. lustre
  5. lustred
  6. lustreless
  7. lustrelessly
  8. lustrelessness
  9. lustres
  10. lustreware
  11. lustrewares

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Adapted from Wiktionary: lustreless (page history and authors); lusterless (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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