different between lackluster vs meh

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

English

Etymology 1

• Popularized by the television show The Simpsons, specifically in the episode titled "Sideshow Bob Roberts".

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /m?/

Adjective

meh (comparative more meh, superlative most meh)

1. Mediocre; lackluster; unexceptional; uninspiring.
2. Apathetic; unenthusiastic.

Translations

Interjection

meh

1. (slang) Expressing indifference or lack of enthusiasm.

Synonyms

• pht, pshh, phht, pssh, pssht, psht, pshht, feh, pooh, pshaw, pish, bah, poh

Translations

Noun

meh

1. (informal) A judgement marked by indifference; lack of impression.

Etymology 2

From Cantonese ? (me1).

Particle

meh

1. (Singapore, Malaysia, colloquial) Final interrogative particle.

Anagrams

• 'hem, Hem, hem, hem-

Albanian

Alternative forms

• mef

Etymology

From Proto-Albanian *meuska, from Proto-Indo-European *mewH- (compare Latvian maût (“to submerge”), Serbo-Croatian m?ti (“to wash”)).

Verb

meh (first-person singular past tense meha)

1. I soak

Related terms

• muf

Kholosi

Etymology

From Sanskrit ??? (megha, “cloud”).

Noun

meh ?

1. rain

References

• Eric Anonby; Hassan Mohebi Bahmani (2014) , “Shipwrecked and Landlocked: Kholosi, an Indo-Aryan Language in South-west Iran”, in Cahier de Studia Iranica xx?^[8], pages 13-36

Northern Kurdish

Etymology

From Proto-Iranian [Term?] (compare Persian ???? (mah), Ossetian ??? (mæj), Avestan ????????? (m??), ????????????????????? (mao?h)), from Proto-Indo-Iranian [Term?] (compare Sanskrit ??? (m??sa)), from Proto-Indo-European *m?h?n?s (“moon; month”) (compare Albanian muaj, Armenian ???? (amis), French mois, Tocharian A mañ, English moon).

Pronunciation

• Rhymes: -?h

Noun

meh f

1. month

Related terms

• mang

Pennsylvania German

Etymology

From Old High German m?ro, from Proto-Germanic *maizô. Compare German mehr, Dutch meer, English more.

Adjective

meh

1. more

Adverb

meh

1. any longer
2. more
3. anymore

Serbo-Croatian

Alternative forms

• (Ijekavian) mij?h

Etymology

From Proto-Slavic *m?x?.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /mê?x/

Noun

m?h m (Cyrillic spelling ????)

1. blower, bellows
2. goatskin, wineskin

Declension

Related terms

• mešina

Slovene

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /mé?x/

Noun

m??h m inan

1. bellows

Inflection

Further reading

• “meh”, in Slovarji Inštituta za slovenski jezik Frana Ramovša ZRC SAZU, portal Fran

South Slavey

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?m?h/

Noun

meh

1. Fort Liard form of mbeh

References

• Keren Rice (1989) A Grammar of Slave, Berlin, West Germany: Mouton de Gruyter, ?ISBN, page 11

Spanish

Interjection

meh

1. meh

Zhuang

Etymology

From Proto-Tai *me?? (“mother”). Cognate with Thai ??? (m???), Northern Thai ???, Lao ??? (m?), Lü ??? (mae¹), Shan ??? (m?ae), Ahom ???????????? (mee), Bouyei meeh.

Pronunciation

• (Standard Zhuang) IPA^(key): /me?/
• Tone numbers: me⁶
• Hyphenation: meh

Noun

meh (Sawndip forms ???? or ? or ???? or ???? or ?, old orthography me?)

1. mother

   Synonym: daxmeh

2. woman; female

Classifier

meh (old orthography me?)

1. Used for adult women who have given birth.
2. Used for female animals that have given birth or laid eggs.

Adjective

meh (old orthography me?)

1. main; principal

Derived terms