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The synonyms of “Lackluster” are: lacklustre, lusterless, lustreless
According to the Oxford Dictionary of English, “lackluster” as an adjective can have the following definitions:
| lacklustre | (of the hair or the eyes) not shining; dull. The conditioner will revitalize lacklustre hair. |
| lusterless | Lacking brilliance or vitality. A lusterless performance. |
| lustreless | Not bright or shiny; dull. Her uncombed lustreless black hair. |
| banal | Repeated too often; overfamiliar through overuse. Songs with banal repeated words. |
| banality | The fact or condition of being banal; unoriginality. There is an essential banality to the story he tells. |
| bland | Smoothly agreeable and courteous with a degree of sophistication. His expression was bland and unreadable. |
| bore | A gun of a specified bore. His eyes bored into hers. |
| bored | Feeling weary and impatient because one is unoccupied or lacks interest in one’s current activity. She s bored out of her mind. |
| boring | The act of drilling a hole in the earth in the hope of producing petroleum. A boring evening with uninteresting people. |
| bromide | A sedative preparation containing potassium bromide. Feel good bromides create the illusion of problem solving. |
| cliche | A trite or obvious remark. |
| commonplace | A notable passage in a work copied into a commonplace book. Bombing has become almost a commonplace of public life there. |
| dull | Make dull in appearance. Dull silver badly in need of a polish. |
| ennui | A feeling of listlessness and dissatisfaction arising from a lack of occupation or excitement. He succumbed to ennui and despair. |
| fatigue | Extreme tiredness resulting from mental or physical exertion or illness. After watching TV with her husband she had a bad case of football fatigue. |
| featureless | Lacking distinctive attributes or aspects. The featureless landscape of the steppe. |
| hackneyed | (of a phrase or idea) having been overused; unoriginal and trite. Hackneyed old sayings. |
| humdrum | Lacking excitement or variety; boringly monotonous. Humdrum routine work. |
| insipid | Lacking flavour; weak or tasteless. Mugs of insipid coffee. |
| irksome | Irritating; annoying. An irksome journey. |
| mediocre | Poor to middling in quality. There have been good and mediocre and bad artists. |
| mediocrity | The quality or state of being mediocre. The team suddenly came good after years of mediocrity. |
| monotonous | (of a sound or utterance) lacking in variation in tone or pitch. Nothing is so monotonous as the sea. |
| monotony | Lack of variety and interest; tedious repetition and routine. You can become resigned to the monotony of captivity. |
| nondescript | A nondescript person or thing. She lived in a nondescript suburban apartment block. |
| platitude | A trite or obvious remark. She began uttering liberal platitudes. |
| ponderous | Slow and laborious because of weight. A ponderous stone. |
| prosaic | Commonplace; unromantic. A prosaic and unimaginative essay. |
| tedious | So lacking in interest as to cause mental weariness. Tedious days on the train. |
| tiresome | Causing one to feel bored or annoyed. Weeding is a tiresome but essential job. |
| uninteresting | Arousing no interest or attention or curiosity or excitement. A very uninteresting account of her trip. |
| vapid | Lacking taste or flavor or tang. Vapid tea. |
| wearisome | Causing one to feel tired or bored. They insisted on his presence at wearisome musical soir es. |
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