English

Alternative forms

• lustreless

Adjective

lusterless ‎(comparative more lusterless, superlative most lusterless)

1. Without luster, dull, not shiny, flat or matte finished.
   • 1844, Edgar Allan Poe, ‘The Premature Burial’:

     The lips were of the usual marble pallor. The eyes were lustreless.

   • 1961, V. S. Naipaul, A House for Mr Biswas, Vintage International, 2001, Part Two, Chapter 5,

     His Chevrolet was larger, but old and unwashed; the mudguards had been dented, cut, welded; one door had been ducoed in a lustreless colour that did not exactly match […]

2. Without brilliance, unremarkable.
   • 1967, William Trevor, "Children of the Headmaster," in Collected Stories, Penguin, 1992, p. 1237,

     The school was a triumph for her husband after a lustreless career in Hong Kong, but it had brought her low.

Anagrams

• lustreless
• resultless