lack·lus·ter

[lak-luhs-ter]
adjective
1.
lacking brilliance or radiance; dull: lackluster eyes.
2.
lacking liveliness, vitality, spirit, or enthusiasm: a lackluster performance.
noun
3.
a lack of brilliance or vitality.
Also, especially British, lack·lus·tre.


Origin:
1590–1600; lack + luster1

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lacklustre or (US) lackluster (ˈlækˌlʌstə) [Click for IPA pronunciation guide]
 
adj
lacking force, brilliance, or vitality
 
lackluster or (US) lackluster
 
adj

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Lackluster is always a great word to know.
So is callithumpian. Does it mean:
an extraordinary or unusual thing, person, or event; an exceptional example or instance.
a children's mummer's parade, as on the Fourth of July, with prizes for the best costumes.
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Word Origin & History

lackluster
c.1600, first attested in "As You Like It," from lack + luster. Combinations with lack- were frequent in 16c., e.g. lackland (1590s), of a landless man; lack-Latin (1530s), of an ignorant priest.
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Example sentences
Once upon a time, a school principal grew tired of his students' lackluster
  academic performance.
What's more, with a lackluster stock market, pension funds and rich people had
  to find more promising places to put their dough.
Unfortunately, these are precisely the strategies that media companies pursued
  aggressively during the past lackluster decade.
Ironically, they did it in an effort to push through a partisan and lackluster
  ethics plan.
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