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lackluster

English

Alternative forms

  • lacklustre (UK & Commonwealth)

Etymology

From lack +? luster.

Pronunciation

Adjective

lackluster (comparative more lackluster, superlative most lackluster) (American spelling)

  1. Lacking brilliance or intelligence.
  2. Having no shine or lustre; dull.
    • 1885, William Dean Howells, The Rise of Silas Lapham, New York: Holt, Rinehart & Winston, 1961, Chapter XIX, p. 273,
      He sat looking at her with lack-lustre eyes. The light suddenly came back into them.
  3. Not exceptional; not worthy of special merit, attention, or interest; having no vitality.
    The actor gave a lackluster performance in his latest film.

Synonyms

  • See also Thesaurus:bore

Translations

Noun

lackluster (countable and uncountable, plural lacklusters) (American spelling)

  1. (uncountable) Lack of brightness or points of interest.
  2. (countable) A person or thing of no particular brilliance or intelligence.

Anagrams

  • lack-lustre, lacklustre

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lack

English

Etymology

Middle English, cognate with or from Middle Low German lak, Middle Dutch lac (deficiency) and Middle Dutch laken (blame, lack); all ultimately from Proto-Germanic *laka-, related to *lak(k)?n- (to blame, reproach), from Proto-Indo-European *lok-néh?-. See also Dutch lak (calumny), Old Norse lakr (lacking).

Pronunciation

  • (UK) IPA(key): /lak/
  • (US) IPA(key): /læk/
  • Rhymes: -æk

Noun

lack (countable and uncountable, plural lacks)

  1. (obsolete) A defect or failing; moral or spiritual degeneracy.
  2. A deficiency or need (of something desirable or necessary); an absence, want.
    • c. 1596, William Shakespeare, The Merchant of Venice, Act IV, Scene 1,[1]
      [] let his lack of years be no impediment to let him lack a reverend estimation;
    • 1994, Green Day, Basket Case
      I went to a shrink, to analyze my dreams. He said it's lack of sex that's bringing me down.

Antonyms

  • glut
  • surplus

Derived terms

  • lackless

Translations

Verb

lack (third-person singular simple present lacks, present participle lacking, simple past and past participle lacked)

  1. (transitive) To be without, to need, to require.
    My life lacks excitement.
  2. (intransitive) To be short (of or for something).
    He'll never lack for company while he's got all that money.
    • c. 1600,, William Shakespeare, Hamlet, Act I, Scene 4,[2]
      Hamlet. What hour now?
      Horatio. I think it lacks of twelve.
  3. (intransitive, obsolete) To be in want.
    • 1611, King James Version of the Bible, Psalm 34.10,[3]
      The young lions do lack, and suffer hunger []
  4. (obsolete) To see the deficiency in (someone or something); to find fault with, to malign, reproach.
    • c. 1385, William Langland, Piers Plowman, II:
      That is Mede þe Mayde quod she · hath noyed me ful oft / And ylakked my lemman.

Related terms

  • lackluster

Translations

Further reading

  • Kroonen, Guus (2013) , “lak(k)on-”, in Etymological Dictionary of Proto-Germanic (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 11), Leiden, Boston: Brill, ?ISBN, page 325

Anagrams

  • calk, kcal

German

Pronunciation

Verb

lack

  1. imperative singular of lacken
  2. (colloquial) first-person singular present of lacken

Swedish

Etymology

From French lacre (sealing wax), from Portuguese laca.

Noun

lack n

  1. lacquer

Declension

Related terms

  • klarlack
  • lacknafta
  • lackskor
  • nagellack

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