lackluster

Definitions  ·  Examples  ·  Pronunciations  ·  Etymologies  ·  Related  ·  Statistics  ·  Comments (2)  · 
A baseball cap pulled down over his eyes after his Capitals lost to the Kings 5-4 on Thursday night, the usually exuberant Ovechkin instead wanted to discuss what he and coach Bruce Boudreau both described as a lackluster performance that ended Washington's three-game winning streak.

View all »
Examples (29)

  • Meeting attendance is lackluster, and those who do come rarely speak up. —  Latest News - UPI.com
  • (Gates's speech and the conversation between Gates and Buffett) are rather lackluster, the all-star cast of writers makes up for it in the short essays that follow. —  City Journal
  • Sergio Trujillo's choreography is mostly lackluster, aside from some acrobatic male hoofing in the second-act '' Crapshooters 'Ballet.' ' —  EW.com: Today's Latest Headlines
  • It was lackluster, his first chorus was painfully flat, and Rascall Flatts are terrible. meg Tue, Mar 31, 2009 at 07: 32 PM EST —  Entertainment Weekly's PopWatch
  • First off, most of the free content is lackluster -- the video quality is poor, many of the clips are short and most of the content just isn't compelling.
 

Tags

lackluster hasn't been tagged yet.

Sign up or sign in to add tags.

Stats

This word has been looked up 107 times.

On Twitter

Photos from

flickr images

Add a related word »
Related

Roget's II Roget's II: The New Thesaurus

Allen's Allen's Synonyms and Antonyms

Used in the same context Used in the Same Context

Roget's II: The New Thesaurus, Third Edition by the Editors of the American Heritage® Dictionary. Copyright © 2003, 1995 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. Published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. All rights reserved.
 

Pronunciations
Record your own »

by American Heritage

Charts

frequency chart

Bubble size: how much this word was used in a year

Bubble height: used more or less than expected, vs. all uses evenly distributed

You can expect to see this word about twice a month.

Recently looked up

bravado · joss · Zenobia · cinq · monger

Recent Favorites

pygopagus · sanglant · Astacus · sweetbread · qualms

Recent Pronunciations

Der dicke Dachdecker deckte dir dein Dach, drum dank dem dicken Dachdecker, dass der dicke Dachdecker dir dein Dach deckte. · weitläufig · und wenn sie nicht gestorben sind, so leben sie noch heute · redescheu · selbstverständlich